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...Review's success can be measured by more than its fourfold increase in circulation (to 30,000) or the fact that the Rosenblatts expect to make a profit this fall, despite original expectations of running in the red for four years. It is even more significant that the weekly Review has made the morning Tribune and the afternoon Deseret News notice that they no longer monopolize the news in Salt Lake City...
Schools & Skills. In Argentina, where women now account for almost 35% of the total work force, the Federation of Business and Professional Women has grown to 400 members. Bolivia's La Paz University currently counts 543 female students, a fourfold increase since 1950; the number of women in the schools of commerce has jumped 20-fold in five years. At Caracas' Central University, girls outnumber boys 2 to 1 in dentistry, 4 to 1 in pharmacy...
Proof of Wisdom. Despite all those problems, LAFTA could still make considerable progress if it were really willing to try. Mexico, for example, has increased its LAFTA trade fourfold since 1960, figures that it could buy still ten times more from the area. And if LAFTA wants proof of what wise action can accomplish, it need only observe the separate four-year-old Central American Common Market, whose five small members faced even greater disadvantages. They have drastically lowered tariffs across the board and started several regional organizations. Now they are talking about common currency, transportation, education projects...
Still Welcomed. Among the heaviest investors abroad are the auto and chemical companies, which have increased their foreign stakes fourfold since 1950. Chrysler recently bought a majority interest in Simca of France and 30% of Britain's Rootes Motors. In West Germany, Ford and General Motors command 37% of the auto market. Other U.S. industries with rapidly expanding foreign holdings: office equipment, farm machinery, petroleum, aluminum, razor blades. For most, the overseas investment pays off handsomely. Last year, earnings on corporate investment abroad grew by 8% to $4.6 billion more than all the U.S. companies sent abroad...
...Albert Stunkard and Dr. Charles Koch made their experiments on test subjects who were grossly overweight. The women averaged 62% heavier than normal for their height and bone build, and one weighed almost three times what she should have. The men averaged 44% overweight, including one 600-pounder-a fourfold fatty. After a night without food and no breakfast, the volunteers swallowed a stomach tube with balloon attached. Every 15 minutes the doctors asked: "Are you hungry? Does your stomach feel empty? Do you want to eat?" Normal subjects, tested for comparison, felt hungry whenever the pressure in the balloon...