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Developing the Soviet Union as fast as Nikita Khrushchev would like to is too big a job for Communist resources and technology. Capitalists in search of new business have not failed to take notice of this fact. Putting ideology aside, more and more free-world businessmen are making multimillion-dollar deals to build locomotives, dry docks, mills and factories in the Soviet Union...
...after a near-fatal heart attack in 1955. She has efficiently managed the family finances over the years, and proved that she had much of old Cap Taylor's business savvy when she bought and, with Lyndon's help, nurtured a floundering Austin radio station into a multimillion-dollar corporation. "She can read a balance sheet as well as a truck driver can read a road map," says a former associate. As proof of that, there are now public Johnson balance sheets that depict Lady Bird's sizable financial holdings-even more sizable than her husband...
...scientific contributions to military technology are aimed at future war, a far-off, fast-racing conflict between supersonic bombers, atom-armed missiles and man-carrying spacecraft. But more mundane problems have not been neglected by the men in laboratories. With none of the rocket-boosted publicity that swirls around multimillion-dollar projects, technicians are busily turning out new weapons to use on such nasty contemporary difficulties as riots at home and small-scale insurrection abroad. Behind all these devices is the concept of "necessary minimum force," which means no more power than is necessary to disperse rioters without killing them...
...fixing prices on a broad variety of products. Last week's was not only the biggest of that lot, but the most important case of its kind since 29 electrical equipment companies were brought to court on similar charges three years ago. But where the electrical case concerned multimillion-dollar tur bine generators that seemed remote from the everyday consumer, the new indictment covered the commonest grade of steel-the carbon sheets that go into almost every car, refrigerator and washing machine made...
Paris When It Sizzles is a multimillion dollar improvisation that does everything but what the title promises. It fakes, falters and fidgets. But mostly it just fizzles...