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...Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; the Middle East does, in fact, account for a quarter of the world's petroleum output. But as the sheiks grab bigger and bigger slices of oil revenues, producers have been busy developing alternative resources closer to the oil-hungry European market. The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert...
...week from all over the world, many addressed simply "Pelé" - with no country. Back home in Brazil, he is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. and ambitious politicians are forever trying to shake his hand in front of photographers. He is the biggest star of the world's big gest spectator sport - soccer - and he is only...
...Management has become an international commodity." says Sir Walter Puckey, 63, canny, Cornish-born head of Management Selection Ltd., Britain's oldest and la-gest executive recruiting agency. Accordingly, in partnership with Manhattan's Hoff, Canny, Bowen & Associates, Inc., Sir Walter has set up a global headhunting agency called Management Selection International. With Puckey as chairman, the organization will find local managers for U.S. firms operating overseas, also hopes to lure back to England British scientists who emigrated to the U.S. for higher pay. Already the new agency has pegged its first hole by finding an Englishman...
...ceremonial sabers bared. A stream of messengers came and went, bearing bulletins. Arturo Frondizi, 53, President of Argentina and currently his country's most unpopular man, was waiting to see whether he would be allowed to remain as elected Chief Executive of South America's second big gest nation. Frondizi swore he would remain: "Only my person stands between order and chaos." The decision was not his to make. It lay in the uncertain outcome of events he himself had set in motion across Argentina - a crucial congressional election whose terms he had set in expectation of victory...
...books abroad. He wants to send more labor advisers and students over seas. ("The best kind of communication," intones Murrow, "is still face to face.") In the past, Congress has slashed pro posed USIA budgets, and this year the long knives are out again. Murrow's big gest selling job may have to be done right at home on Capitol Hill...