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Previews considers itself a sort of stock exchange for world property, brings far-flung buyers and sellers together through twelve offices in the U.S. and abroad and 20,000 cooperating brokers in almost every country in the world. Each year it handles $75 million worth of property, in 1957 sold $28 million worth-and made $2,250,000 in fees. Last week Previews' president, white-haired John Colquhoun Tysen, 45, was off on an annual world tour to sew up new deals with pashas and parvenus, unemployed royalty and hard-headed businessmen...
...some cases, small nations have a real need for an international line, or fly so efficiently that they can compete on even terms with bigger nations. The Netherlands' 38-year-old K.L.M. and Belgium's Sabena, both with far-flung routes and big, modern fleets, rank among the world's finest airlines, earn valuable foreign exchange and promote much tourism for their mother nations. Flying to the U.S. and South America, Japan Air Lines serves a booming nation of 90 million people, not only generates most of its own international traffic but has such an effective domestic...
...parts of the world (see map)-notably India, China and southern Africa-antennas are sprouting in unlikely places. A considerable number (27) of stations have been erected by the U.S. armed forces for the families of military personnel attached to air and naval bases, or military advisory groups in far-flung areas. Though their programs are almost entirely old films or filmed shows from the U.S., the natives have rushed to buy sets for themselves, even when they know no English. After an armed forces transmitter went up at Asmara in Eritrea, Americans found their opposite numbers coming to them...
...Spokesman of the Services since 1863") does not flail away at brasshatted bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards of accuracy, the Pentagon snaps smartly to attention when it barks...
...similar programs, including such corporate giants as General Motors, IBM, International Harvester, Alcoa, U.S. Steel and Ford Motor Co. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has put 1,800 executives through its four-year-old management training center in Asbury Park, N.J., offers additional training for thousands of executives among its far-flung subsidiaries. Most companies see to it that their executives get courses closely related to business, but a few have bravely plunged into more cultural territory. Bayuk Cigars Inc. (Phillies, Websters) gives its executives courses in anthropology and art, is planning-to add a course in music appreciation...