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...major scheduled address about past accomplishments and future progress, he could point to Soviet industry and science riding a high curve of technological advance. Abroad, he could point to steady Communist erosion of the West's position from Laos to the U.N. By sending 28 divisions on far-flung battle exercises through Eastern Europe this week, Khrushchev would impress many delegates, even if he did not succeed in intimidating the West. Soviet experts predicted that he would cap the Congress with a spectacular space feat or a vast nuclear explosion...
...President's trip represents no slight undertaking. It will lay the ground for a needed exchange of ideas and talent between Harvard and the intellectual centers of the Far East. It will thus lead to a multiplication of the far-flung commitments of Harvard and to an extension of the cultural influence of the United States...
...college (Yale and Oxford), Miller studied Latin and Greek and aspired to architecture. But in 1934 he was called home to Columbus to take charge of the least promising of the wealthy Miller family's far-flung enterprises: a consistently unprofitable plant that had been built to produce a new kind of diesel engine developed by the family chauffeur. By pressing tirelessly for mechanical perfection of the diesel engine and touting its economy, Miller transmuted this white elephant into a golden goose. Though Cummins' sales declined slightly to $64 million in 1961's first half...
...profits of $900,000 for the first half of 1961.* Under Russell, the S.P. has also built, for $60 million, more than 1,500 miles of pipelines that move 26 million bbl. of oil products yearly from California to points as far east as El Paso. The railroad even sells airline tickets from its own far-flung ticket counters, and now Don Russell is petitioning the ICC for permission to buy a 50% interest in the John I. Hay barge lines on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His grand plan is to form a "supermarket" of transportation...
...their trading privileges with a Britain economically wedded to the Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands), the Commonwealth countries wanted no part of the Common Market. "Old friendships fade," observed the Australian correspondent of the London Economist acidly. "The club is not what it was. The far-flung Empire became the glorious Commonwealth; and then suddenly it seemed nothing but a millstone round Britain's neck as Britain tried to get into the swim...