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Early last week he summoned congressional leaders to the White House to give them the word. Next day, he led off his press conference with the announcement that the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia wanted to buy some 4,000,000 metric tons (150 million bushels) of U.S. wheat at world market prices. That would amount to about $250 million...
Affronts Abroad. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges cited examples of affronts to foreign buyers that no wise U.S. businessmen would think of making at home. Technical instructions are frequently printed in English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases...
Inaugurated at the world bobsledding championships that ended last week, Igls proved about 3 sec. faster for the metric mile than the Lake Placid groove. It also turned out to be a bobber's nightmare. On the second day of the two-man trials, a Swedish team piloted by Gunnar Ähs was hitting 50 m.p.h. when it zoomed into the No. 9 bend, nicknamed the Hexenkessel, or Witches' Pot. The sled slid up the 40-ft. bank, bounced down and ricocheted sickeningly from wall to wall. Ähs's upper front teeth were sheared...
...Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset of the chilly season, even the cloth wrapping...
...Common Market is that effete Continental customs will sap the British Way of Life. "Even before her entry," the Paris daily Le Monde observed last week, "Britain is throwing off certain of the original traits to which she has always been so attached. She speaks of adopting the metric system. Automobiles there now have bright colors; high buildings are going up in the middle of London, and worthy gentlemen no longer fear to walk about bareheaded." However, pointed out Le Monde: "The osmosis is not all in one direction. The whole Continent is now in the process of being conquered...