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Over the Line. It certainly is. After long years of isolation and decay, Spain is caught up in an industrial revolution that has made it the fastest-growing nation in Europe and is rapidly changing the structure of its society. In the past six years, thousands of new enterprises have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs that have drawn millions of Spaniards from their pueblos to the cities. Foreign investment is coming in. Gross national product has soared 65% since 1960; per-capita income last year passed the mystical $500 dividing line that supposedly separates the "rich" nations from...
Foreign Encroachment. What the carriers are fighting for is a share in the world's fastest growing air-transport market. The volume of air traffic between Japan and the U.S. has nearly tripled in five years, in part because of the deepening U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The U.S. airlines are also struggling against foreign encroachment on their domestic business. Japan Air Lines' new rights, says American's Sadler, are "the latest in a long series of moves that have changed completely the role between domestic and international carriers. Years ago, the international carriers served the coastal...
...than any other stock on the exchange (from 64⅜ to 219⅝). Syntex is incorporated in Panama, operates largely in Mexico and sells mostly in the U.S. It is a leader in the field of steroid hormones, which includes the birth-control pills and is one of the fastest-growing segments of the drug industry...
...There is every indication that their huge gamble will ultimately pay off. What they are playing for is a major gas field -some think it may prove to be the world's biggest-that is located on the very doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets: Western Europe...
Next to Robert McNamara, the man with the fastest-growing job in Washington may well be the U.S. Commissioner of Education. Serving under Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, the commissioner is responsible for an ever expanding variety of federal programs, ranging from school integration to college scholarships to developing new teaching techniques. Last week President Johnson named to the job Harold Howe II, 47, a proven administrator in both public and private education, to succeed Francis Keppel (TIME cover...