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Lunar Landscapes. Soustelle's empire is only a part of the world's largest desert; by usual geographers' reckoning, the Sahara runs from the Atlas Mountains south to the Niger and from Africa's Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest...
Calcutta University, the world's largest (enrollment: 90,000), is so completely a factory that it runs classes in three shifts a day. Its urban colleges are ill-lighted and have no recreational facilities. The only gathering places are coffee shops and tea shops, where Marx-hipped hotheads often dominate the conversation. Classes are so perfunctory and lectures so mechanical that many students leave after roll call; a friend can always supply notes and, more important, provide names and pages of books the professor referred...
...chief executives of the three largest U.S. steel companies faced a task that was a mixture of. pride and embarrassment. With the steel union in its third week of a strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with...
...billings of $1.4 billion for the first half also touched new highs; so did production, which was running at 97% of capacity just before the steel strike. From Republic Steel Chairman Charles M. White came another record report to round out the picture: the nation's third largest steel firm ran up quarterly earnings of $2.57 a share v. 98? last year, half-year earnings of $4.28 a share v. $1.53 last year. Republic's half-year production (5.6 million ingot tons) and sales ($785 million) also broke all previous records...
...purposely isolated at opposite ends of the sprawling (100,000 sq. ft.) factory, have no intercoms, do not consult with each other on the telephone, rarely mix socially. Yet their purposefully separated management has driven Kaynar in 16 years from a two-man shop to the world's largest manufacturer of an unlikely combination of products: self-locking aircraft nuts and women's hairclips. Last week, with sales humming on four continents at the rate of $15 million yearly, Kaynar opened a new plant in France to take advantage of the low-tariff common market...