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...French organizations took just the sort of merger step that De Gaulle has been advocating. Pont-à-Mousson, France's second biggest private industrial company, with estimated 1965 sales of $1 billion, and the Compagnie Financière de Suez, one of the Continent's fastest growing investment trusts, with assets of some $200 million, decided to get together. Under a provisional agreement, Suez will assume a 20% stake in Pont-à-Mousson; in exchange, Pont-à-Mousson will get between 10% and 15% of Suez, the exact share yet to be negotiated...
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...
...fans, and the dinghies bobbing in pools of water as gangs of urchins swarmed over the luxury yachts to ogle the bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and built-in barbecue grills. But potential buyers at Manhattan's 56th National Boat Show were most interested in the small boats, the fastest-selling items in a sport that has 8,000,000 devotees and annual sales of $2.6 billion...
...Colorado, Kidd, 22, finished second in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964, thus becoming the first American ever to win an Olympic medal in men's skiing. Two weeks ago, in the season's first big meet at Hindelang, Germany, he was up against the fastest man in Europe: France's Jean-Claude Killy, 22, winner of seven major slalom races in 1965. SURPRISE AT HINDELANG read the next day's headline in France's sports daily, l'Equipe, as Kidd, trailing Killy by most of a full second...
...Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull has been called the "perfect muscular mesomorph." He is the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, its fastest skater (upward of 23 m.p.h.) and hardest shooter (his lefthanded slap shot rockets toward the net at 118 m.p.h.). Goalies complain that getting in the way of a Bobby Hull shot is "like being slugged with a sledge hammer," and practically everybody agrees with Montreal's Claude Provost that Hull is "the strongest guy in hockey." He even looks mean when he smiles, because he is missing his three front teeth...