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...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...
...prime complaint centers on what Chase Manhattan Chairman George Champion calls "government by guide line." Alcoa President John D. Harper and Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block are just two of the many corporate chiefs who argue that the wage-price guides are unworkable and unfair in that they are applied unevenly and have not prevented wages from soaring in industries as varied as construction and textiles. Though he endorses many of Johnson's other policies, Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, criticizes the guideline policy because "it's not good...
...JOSEPH L. BLOCK, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., who in 1962 helped break the steel price rise by refusing to go along with the rest of the industry: "The wage-price guidelines are unjust, discriminatory and harmful to the economy. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices, while thousands of others go their merry way and raise prices at will. The Government's attack on inflation should be through the exercise of proper monetary and fiscal policies. Federal expenditures such as public works should...
...soaring architecture and modern planning, Brazil's nine-year-old inland capital, Brasilia, is still more of a collection of government buildings than a metropolis. To help the capital become a city, Brazilian Hotelman José Tjurs last week closed a deal to start building a $14 million project, which, when completed by 1976, will be a sort of Latin-style Rockefeller Center - and Tjurs' biggest holding...