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...welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance so far this year has not turned away a single U.S. firm...
After learning that Senator Robert F. Kennedy was planning to address the University of Mississippi Law School in mid-March, Columnist Tom Ethridge of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger expounded on Southern hospitality. "It is hoped that Mississippi authorities can guarantee the safety of Senator Kennedy when and if he visits Oxford," Ethridge wrote. "Or is it really possible to guarantee anyone's personal safety here or anywhere else? There are men in our state who might take fantastic risks to get even for the 1962 military occupation of Oxford by federal troops. We do not predict an attempt...
Although containers have been used by a few U.S. ship operators for a decade, the system has really taken hold only lately. Last week the Moore-McCormack freighter Mormacahair steamed through the stormy Atlantic to Antwerp with that ocean's first regularly scheduled commercial container cargo. In mid-March, U.S. Lines will begin weekly sailings from New York to Europe with the first of four vessels specially fitted to stack containers in their holds like bricks in a wall. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines is converting two ore carriers for container service. San Francisco-based American President Lines last week...
...mid-March returns were still light and Tarr, Morrill and Crump in the meantime realized that their estimates of the cost of processing the questionaires had been too low. If their enterprise was to be successful they were going to have to receive 8,000 responses--many more than they thought would come in. At this point a T.V. show, "To Tell the Truth," and a 19-year-old U.C.L.A. coed, Vicki Albright, came to the rescue...
...Show. Martin Luther King himself left in mid-march to make a speech in Cleveland, returned to the procession a few miles outside Montgomery. He walked about 27 miles in all. That night, a batch of high-priced and highly diversified entertainers-such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nipsey Russell, Shelley Winters, Floyd Patterson, Harry Belafonte, Leonard Bernstein-performed for thousands packed in a muddy field in Montgomery...