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...funds by a penurious local government, has been of little help. Other cities of 1,000,000 or more have an average police-citizenry ratio of about 1 to 320; Houston's is 1 to 700. And its 1,350 underpaid men must patrol 446 square miles, third largest municipal territory in the country...
...released by the U.S. command in Saigon. Since the war began, the U.S. has lost 1,398 airplanes and 888 helicopters-567 of the airplanes and six choppers over North Viet Nam. In another set of figures, the U.S. noted that the week ending May 28 had produced the largest number of American casualties of any week in the war, with 313 dead and 2,616 wounded. But during the same week, 2,216 Communists were killed, for a monthly total of 8,270 Red dead and unnumbered more wounded...
...more than its Communists. Once a slowly developing agricultural country, it ranks today among the world's top 15 industrial nations. As Europe's most heavily forested country, it exports paper, pulp and wood products to 90 lands. Exploiting what is believed to be Europe's largest copper fields, Finland since the end of the war has developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common Market without...
Nineteen more showed their wares around the field. Gemini Astronauts Michael Collins and David Scott were there along with the 250-seat DC-8-61, largest passenger jet now in scheduled operation. Experimental craft ranged from Ling-Temco-Vought's V/STOL XC-142 to Martin Marietta's Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit. In military aviation, the star of the show was General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians...
...firm has mined phosphates in Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world, this was the sort of outlet Madrid wanted...