Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paramount Loyalty. As the Afro-Asian nations make their way along the slippery path of nationalism, they may well discover that it eventually leads them to federations, or to such combinations as today's European Common Market. Historian Arnold Toynbee argues: "Nationalism certainly doesn't fit into a world riven into ever larger groups. We can no longer afford to have many tiny states which may go to war with each other...
Freely entered into by nations that still retain their own sovereignty, the regional leagues may finally fit the description of the great French historian, Ernest Renan, who maintained that a viable nation is a daily plebiscite of its people...
...million is left to trusts held by two banks in Miami and Pittsburgh. Earmarked for two Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the net in come will be used "exclusively for such religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes within the United States and its possessions as the trustees shall see fit." Since only 154 of the 15,000 existing U.S. foundations have assets of more than $10 million, the Davis kitty is among the biggest on record, and it will grow. John D. Rockefeller, for example, put up a mere $182.6 million to launch the Rockefeller Foundation, which is now worth...
Stratos has no doubt that other Greek industrialists, too, can fit smoothly into the Common Market if they carefully choose the right opening. In his opinion the right opening lies in the fact that Western Europe's labor shortage is leading many Common Market companies to switch from light industry, which requires many workers, to more mechanized heavy industry. Since Greece has labor to spare, it should concentrate on light industries such as textiles and clothing manufacture. "We have the manpower," says Stratos. "We can fill the vacuum...
...secret, if it proves as workable as its inventors hope, is the mobile lounge-a fat-tired monster that rolls regally over the landing strip like a parlor car on stilts. A few minutes before takeoff, passengers are ushered into the lounges, which fit snugly against the terminal building (flight schedules out of Dulles now quote the departure time of the lounge instead of the plane). Lounges are red-carpeted, air conditioned, furnished with comfortable chairs, soft lighting, tinted windows and, unavoidably, piped-in music. Upon reaching the waiting jet, an extensible ramp locks into the plane's door...