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...monopoly control over electric power, telephones, railroads, radio and television. The state also has big interests in shipping, steel, airlines and oil. After last week's flare-up, it seems quite possible that the Continent's biggest chemical concern eventually will be tucked completely into the government fold...
...legion, under Sir John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), also imposed an ever-increasing degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate and farming 100,000 acres of land planted in grains...
...Quang, who helped overthrow the Diem regime in 1963. The militant group had previously scorned participation in the present government. The fact that they fielded a slate of candidates on the ballot, with the lotus blossom for their symbol, was regarded in Saigon as a return to the legitimate fold. It would support Thieu's claim that electoral democracy is becoming a reality in South Viet...
...been man. Since 1600, when the first precise records were compiled, man has butchered creatures ranging from the abalone to the blue whale and the zebra. "During the past 150 years," says Ecologist Lee M. Talbot of the Smithsonian Institution, "the rate of extermination of mammals has increased 55-fold. If the killing goes on at this pace, in about 30 years all of the remaining 4,062 species of mammals will be gone...
...different in other ways as well. It never raids, exerts financial but not operating control over the companies that come into its fold, and has no desire to acquire large corporations. It owns 110 medium-sized companies in seven fields as disparate as health clubs, plastics, mobile homes, hosiery, industrial equipment, construction and real estate. Since no single member company provides more than 4% of USI's sales or pretax profits, it can weather a downturn better than most competitors...