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Kaunda's policy makes economic sense, since European and South African know-how is essential to the booming mining industry, which is expected to yield the government close to $70 million in taxes during its first year of self-rule. Since the country also has abundant land, ample water and few settlers, it has been largely spared the racial bitterness that has riven Kenya. However, in the wake of the uprising that came close to toppling his friend Julius Nyerere in neighboring Tanganyika, the usually affable Kaunda warned grimly last week: "We shall crush ruthlessly any attempt to overthrow...
Soon the President and his top brass are noodling around a vast baize table at the Pentagon. Here, Sellers and George C. Scott ring in deftly shaped performances. As General "Buck" Turgidson, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Scott is the brash, boyish paradigm of technological know-how, whether he is contemplating megadeaths ("I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed") or the superstructure of his bikini-clad secretary Tracy Reed, a Miss Foreign Affairs with no top secrets...
...told, the donors have lent or given $13.8 billion worth of aid-with the U.S. supplying nine-tenths of the total, or nearly $12 billion. There have been some impressive results. In all recipient areas, new factories, hydroelectric plants and highways have sprouted. The recipients, sharing their own meager know-how, have trained 2,691 of one another's students in a technical exchange program. Industry has burgeoned in the plan's 13 years, is still expanding at a robust 8% annually-but in most of the recipient countries, it started almost from zero...
Colt got the M-16 in a roundabout way. The new rifle was invented by a West Coast gunsmith, who sold the patent to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. Not equipped to make guns, Fairchild four years ago sold the rights to Colt, whose know-how quickly worked the bugs out of the gun. Colt needed a going thing. Having fallen on hard times after World War II, the company in 1955 was taken over by Penn-Texas Corp., which later became Fairbanks Whitney. A vast conglomeration of ill-matched companies, Fairbanks Whitney has run through four separate managements...
...early '30s, the action hinges on the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband before she reaches the no-takers age. Lizzie (Inga Swenson) knows as much as any man, but she scorns what every woman is supposed to know-how to flutter, flatter, bewilder and bewitch...