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What hope is there that the present Vietnamese government and its U.S. backers will fare any better? For one thing, the military situation, thanks to the American buildup, has improved, so that the South Vietnamese government can now provide security to at least a fraction of its citizens. And security is the stuff of which loyalty is made. Says one U.S. expert: "The man behind the water buffalo wants above all to know that he's going to wake up alive tomorrow." Another thing is the positive attitude on the part of the government. Declares Premier...
...sure, many shares: those listed for sale represented only $9,000,000 of the total $143 million equity of Fried. Krupp Hüttenwerke A.G., a recently organized coal-and-steel subsidiary that forms only a fraction of the Krupp holdings. Each of the preferred shares issued at a par value of 100 German marks ($25) carried a guaranteed annual dividend of at least 10% for the next 10 years. With such a sweetener tagged on, the Krupp shares opened at $39.75 on the West German exchanges, and at week's end were selling...
...reminiscence of Adlai Stevenson that appeared in Look last month, CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as expressing misgivings about aspects of U.S. foreign policy the day before he died in London last summer. Though the late U.N. Ambassador's comments on the subject made up only a fraction of Sevareid's article, Stevenson was consequently pictured in the press as a man in revolt against President Johnson's policy in Viet...
...enough to cause the thermonuclear reactions that occur in a true star. And because less than 1% of Jupiter's mass consists of the heavier elements that are the source of the radioactive isotopes believed to heat the earth's core, radioactivity can contribute only a small fraction of the heat that is apparently generated in the interior...
...site. Eventually these neo-Gothic ribs will be sheathed in white tiles, leaving the skeleton visible from beneath. It took three years to adapt Utzon's spherical geometry to actual construction, using computers to ensure that 170-ft. ribs weighing 80 tons would fit to a fraction of an inch...