Word: foreign
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Those issues, he said, were three: the war, the "militarization of our foreign policy and almost of our whole political life," and the problem of making the political process work...
Peek at the Mirror. As gratifying as its own sales were, Detroit still peeked nervously in the rearview mirror at its foreign competitors, which have been accounting for about 10% of all U.S. sales. In fact, if it were not for a disturbing surge of imports, which will reach a sales level of well over 900,000 this year, a new auto-industry record would be merely an outside possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same...
Downright Scurrilous. Not everyone approves of Schiller, of course. In recent weeks, both Izvestia and French Foreign Minister Michel Debré have accused West Germany of economic aggression. Partly because of the recent recession, the country will spend about $4 billion less for imports this year than other nations will spend for German goods. That only increases the strength of the mark at the expense of the pound and the dollar...
Died. Gerald L. Phillippe, 59, president (1961-63) and board chairman (1963-68) of General Electric Co.; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. As G.E.'s comptroller in the 1950s, Phillippe cut costs to cope with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...
...Alan Turner, a counterespionage agent reminiscent of the half-burnt-out, seedy Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves-a caste-conscious, emotionally aborted, washed-out crew of professional liars...