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...Russell Kroeker, a 28-year-old U.S. electrical engineer from Richboro, Pa., has overcome all such hurdles to be come the fastest-rising entrepreneur in Malawi, the nation created in 1964 from the British protectorate of Nyasaland...
Along with its big, intercity trunk air lines and its smaller, regional carriers, the U.S. has still another kind of air service-and it is the fastest-growing of all. More than 4,000 short-haul outfits will carry about 725,000 passengers this year in small planes that fly between convenient downtown airports or to and from smaller towns and cities. For years the lines have been known rather ingloriously as "third-level carriers," but their safety standards have often been so third-rate that some customers call them "white-knuckle airlines...
Generally, the funds that rose the fast est last year fell the fastest this year...
...risen more during the past year in the U.S. than in any other major country but Canada and Britain, and the nation's traditional trade surplus has all but disappeared. Wage gains are exceeding the increase in workers' productivity, pushing up costs all around. Some of the fastest rises are in pay for service workers-laundry men, bus drivers, retail clerks-who produce no more than before and sometimes much less. "That," says Yale Economist William Fellner, "is what makes life less and less comfortable in a rich, industrial country...
...Long the lepers of Finnish politics, Communists now participate in the coalition government in Helsinki. By campaigning on an independent platform, Indian Communists have gained power through free elections; they now head coalition Cabinets in the states of Kerala and West Bengal. One reason that the Communists are the fastest-growing political party in Japan is that they refuse to identify with either Peking or Moscow, insisting on the priority of their own interests over those of Russia and China...