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When Britain's Ley land Motor Corp. wanted to test one of its trucks, it sent its chief engineer on a grueling trip across the dry and dusty length of Iran. The truck broke down. Chastened, the engineer returned to England and designed a better truck. Such are the techniques that have made Leyland Britain's biggest truckmaker and the world's largest exporter of heavy commercial vehicles. So far this year, the company's exports are running a remarkable 80% above last year. It ranks high among the firms contributing to a remarkable spurt...
...failure of Venezuela's democracy in 1948, scholastic freedom disappeared. The Perez Jiminez regime carried out the projected programs of school construction and expansion, but the university system was run strictly by the Ministry of Education. The fall of Jiminez in 1958 resulted in the immediate reinstitution of the Ley de Universidades or university autonomy in Venezuela. Since then the government has protected strongly-if painfully - the sovereignty of Venezuela's colleges...
...crimson bannerline, and it took three full-page ads just to tell readers what the surprise was: lots more of the same-a new cash giveaway game, a serialized version of Fall-Safe, and a promise of articles by nearly everyone from Adlai Stevenson to William F. Buck ley Jr. Even French Novelist Andre Maurois turned up with a sort of Gallicized "Dear Abby" column of "advice to wom en on marriage, love and how to face life's problems...
...gets trampled by a strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home to drink champagne linked-elbows style with her still uncuckolded mate. Shel ley Winters is forgiven by her husband; Claire Bloom takes pills; and Zimbalist manages to defrost Miss Fonda...
...NOTHING (217 pp.)-James Han-ley-Horizon...