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Hero and Heroine, Pongo and Perdita, after several months of dogmestic bliss, produce a litter of 15 purebred Dalmatian pups. Fate, the hound, decrees that all their troubles shall not be little ones. The pups are promptly dognaped by a couple of unmitigated curs in the employ of Cruella de Vil, a wicked wealthy witch who intends to slaughter the dogs, strip off their pelts and make herself a beautiful Dalmatian coat...
...Millikan suggested limiting the project to "several thousand" people, Eberly saw an eventual need for several hundred thousand. He noted that Afghanistan hopes to increase its elementary educational facilities from 800 to 12,000 schools by 1980, and that in that nation alone, a teacher training program could effectively employ several thousand Americans...
Strategic Waters. In deciding how to employ its carrier, Brazil's navy had been influenced by a little-publicized but increasingly effective U.S. drive aimed at mobilizing the hand-me-down ships of South America's navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet...
...Borden Co. announced that it has chosen a site in County Cork in the heart of Ireland's dairy country to build the biggest dry-milk plant it has ever constructed outside the U.S. The new plant, scheduled for completion next May, will cost $2,240,000, employ 50, and produce about 9,000,000 lbs. of dry whole-milk powder a year, chiefly for export to South America...
Miller's businesses (the Cummins Engine Co., which makes diesels, a bank, a starch and corn-syrup company, plus a 48% interest in a California chain of supermarkets) employ 7,500 people and gross nearly $300 million a year, but there is plenty of Christianity in the executive suite. Among numerous good works, he was for years sole angel of the Christian Century, still meets most of the magazine's deficit. Miller has also turned his home town of Columbus into something of a Christian Utopia, helps finance public school building, is contributing a new campus to nearby...