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What are the faults of the South Vietnamese fighting man and how can they be corrected? The biggest problem, all observers agree, is leadership. Few field-grade officers are selected for know-how and courage; too many are chosen on the basis of family or political connections. Even officers with physical courage (and there are many) live under the fear that they will fall victim to the constant search for scapegoats by their superiors. Best way to avoid this: stay away from the fortunes-and misfortunes-of battle...
...food exports, so that the Eastern countries are forced to seek new ways of earning hard currency. They hope to do so by exporting industrial products from the new enterprises built in partnership with Krupp. Ignoring politics, Krupp has pioneered West-East deals in which it provides the technological know-how and much of the machinery to labor-rich Eastern Europe, shares both the risks and profits with Communist governments. Manager Beitz predicts that in ten years Krupp's trade with Eastern Europe (only $12.5 million in 1963) will equal its sales to Germany's Common Market partners...
Opera for Marriage. The Hands are a sharp contrast to the Dukes, a pair so steeped in inherited wealth and social know-how that their palms might very likely include a Reception Line, etched in somewhere between Life and Fate. Lloyd Hand is the son of a steelworker who began as a laborer for Sheffield Steel (now part of Armco Steel Corp.) in Alton, Ill., became a rolling-mill supervisor, and was sent to the company's new branch in Houston when young Lloyd was ten. Lloyd was the first member of his family to attend college. He worked...
...Trajano de Azevedo Antunes obtained the mining rights and began looking for foreign help to swing the operation. A number of U.S. companies turned him down, insisting on 100% of the business or nothing at all. Finally, in 1949, Bethlehem Steel agreed to supply Antunes with financing and technical know-how in return for a minority interest. The arrangement has proved so successful that it has been imitated of ten by other mining, oil and industrial companies getting started in Brazil...
...result, at least in part, of the defection of Western-trained scientists from such atomic centers as Caltech and France's Curie Institute, the Chinese have the scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...