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Those who stay on to work the farms have adopted modern methods and equipment that would have astonished the peasant farmer of only a few years ago. Last week the farmers of Brittany flocked to their provincial capital of Rennes for its 44th annual fair, France's largest agricultural exposition. Some 1,200 exhibitors from 21 nations displayed their wares at the pennant-draped fairgrounds, and they included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped...
...years since U.S. forces stormed ashore on Okinawa in the final major battle of World War II, the island has been transformed into the equivalent of the world's largest aircraft carrier. There are 45,000 American servicemen now based on Okinawa. From sprawling Kadena Airbase, huge B-52 jets roar out nearly every day on bombing missions over South Viet Nam. Much of the island has come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa...
Against Brown earlier in the week, Jerry Fruetel won his second game as Lee and Toby Harvey both batted in five runs. The 21 run output is the team's largest this year...
...during the '50s by expanding Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a heavy-construction company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...episode reflects the phenomenal rise of Japan's auto industry, which last year leaped ahead of shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment to become the largest in the country. Last week the Japan Auto Manufacturers Association reported that Japan's twelve automakers produced 4,198,429 cars, trucks and buses during the fiscal year ending March 31, more than any other country except the United States. Passenger cars accounted for 52% of the total, raising Japan's world ranking in that field from sixth in 1967 to third, behind the U.S. and West Germany...