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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympics, Mexico was torn apart by savage gun battles be tween soldiers and students. Two months later, Brazil's generals, archetypes of the Latin American military elite, caught a whiff of dissent and hastily imposed a dictatorship on the continent's largest nation...
...Power Remains. That sounded impressive, but the largest and most important facilities were not on the list, such as the giant airbases at Tachikawa and Yokota near Tokyo, the sprawling naval bases at Yokosuka and Sasebo in Kyushu. And many of the items on the U.S. roster were small indeed: a brace of tiny and long-unused airstrips near Tokyo, a handful of gunnery ranges, a maneuver area near the base of Mt. Fuji, a golf course and a laundry...
...from margarine to butter. The U.S. contends that the levy would violate international prohibitions against the use of domestic taxes for protectionist purposes. In any case, it would certainly threaten the U.S.'s $450 million-a-year sales of soybean products to Western Europe. The U.S.'s largest farm exports to Common Market countries come from the lowly soybean...
...banking, more than in most other lines of business, computers have freed employees from considerable drudgery by taking over routine paperwork and bookkeeping. Now the machines will begin to do much more important chores for many banks. The First National Bank of Atlanta, one of the South's largest, has started a computer service that could help hundreds of small bankers make higher-level management decisions...
...will leave behind an industry with a stodgy image and a company with a spotty record. In his tenure, U.S. Steel's share of domestic steel sales has slipped from 30% to 25%. Last week, hoping to reverse that trend sharply, the world's largest steelmaker picked a new management group. To succeed Lawyer Blough as chairman and chief executive, Big Steel's directors chose Edwin H. Gott, 60, an operations man who has been president for the past 18 months...