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Unfulfilled Plan. Rumania's cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...
...Font's sales rose 9% to $2.99 billion, while earnings of $407 million were 20.5% higher and the best in the company's 163-year history...
...Kazakhstan before going to Mexico City in October; now they are building improved Olympic training camps at Yerevan in Armenia. The Japanese have camps on Mount Nori-kura in the 8,000-ft. to 9,000-ft. range. The French are completing an $8,000,000 complex at Font-Romeu (6,100 ft.) in the Pyrenees, and, in a fine display of entente cordiale, they will let the West Germans train there with them...
...addition of synthetics to wool, which makes for more durable pleats and a less rumpled look. Five years ago, the German clothing industry used almost no synthetics; now it weaves acrylics and polyesters into everything from socks to sweaters, has transformed the brassiere and girdle business by introducing Du Font's stretchable Lycra fiber. The Swedes practically live in synthetic parkas and stretch pants during the winter. Such designers as Pucci and Courrèges make dramatic use of the new fibers in their creations...
...disgorged the biggest businessmen in the U.S. While many of the nation's board rooms stood deserted, the tycoons assembled to see the most important chief executive officer of them all. U.S. Steel's Roger Blough and General Motors' Frederic Donner were there; so were Du Font's Lammot Copeland, IBM's Thomas Watson, General Electric's Fred Borch-and 330 other chiefs of banks and corporations. Lyndon Johnson had invited them to a 90-minute session behind closed doors in order to sell them his "voluntary" plan for ending the nation...