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BELGIUM offers the American investor an outlook that is "excellent-perhaps the best in the Common Market." The Belgian government "actively solicits U.S. investments which will meet the Belgian need for more technical know-how." Foreign investors are offered a series of incentives, including the lowest corporate taxes in the Common Market. Belgium especially wants the U.S. to bring in electronics, precision op-ticals, nonferrous metal and chemical businesses...
...year Master of Arts in Teaching program. Terry Van Brunt, another of the students involved in the reform movement, said that a great number of MAT graduates leave teaching after a single year. "Harvard's not training teachers" he said," who are equipped with the experience and know-how to cope with the conditions they face in the schools...
...this, the Vietnamese will be helped by a band of young Americans who are already risking their lives to bring aid and know-how to the countryside. So far, two AID men have been kidnaped and eight have died-in ambushes and assassinations-on this unsung duty. One new arrival is Steve Shepley, a 27-year-old New Yorker, who is USAlD's action representative in the Delta province of An Xuyen. Puttering unarmed in a 35-h.p. boat through the Viet Cong-infested paddies, he visits village after village, chatting with the people in fluent Vietnamese, assessing their...
...market for liquid household bleaches. Second-place Purex Corp., which had 16% of the market, had managed by heavy promotion to boost its share in several areas, including the Erie, Pa., market, where it had captured 33%. Clorox, now backed by P. & G.'s marketing know-how and money, did not let the gains go unchallenged. It blanketed the areas with ads, offered $1 ironing-board covers for 50? and cut the price of Clorox by 5? to 7? a bottle. Purex gave up, and by March 1958 its share of the Erie mar ket had sunk...
Betrayal. The Arab swing from the left is dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...