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...forecasts of capital requirements for the next decade, however, are stated in figures that are almost incomprehensibly huge; the estimates range up to $4 trillion for the new plants that will be needed to bring the U.S. nearer to becoming a fully employed society. But investment capital on that scale will certainly not be available unless there is a strong and sustained rise in profits that carries well beyond...
...fixing. Koco has installed new plumbing, paneling, siding and decorative brick. On one wall hangs a pair of Texas longhorns. They have also bought an old boat in which they go to catch smelts on Lake Saint Clair. They have just finished paying $10,000 for a suburban lot nearer to the Massey-Ferguson plant, and soon they hope to start building a new house there...
...cold mountain passes across the border, Syrian infantrymen were bundled up in winter-issue overcoats. As I drove nearer to Beirut, the army seemed to be everywhere. Several damaged tanks-three bearing scars of rocket hits-were on flat-bed trailer trucks heading back toward the border; Red Crescent ambulances raced by with wounded in the back. Scores of Russian T-62 tanks and artillery were dug in on ridges. Every so often the troops would turn up their transistor radios, and the sounds of popular Arabic songs brought smiles to tough expressions. The litter of empty shell casings stacked...
Indy's Gasoline Alley, the row of machine shops that line the famed old oval, roared last week with the sound of 900-h.p. engines being pushed to their limit and bustled with mechanized frenzy, profanity and machismo as next Sunday's 500-mile race drew nearer. The Alley is the ultimate in that American male sanctuary, the local garage. TIME's Barrett Seaman reports how a woman was faring there last week...
...lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar's Combat they achieved what some others are not yet quite up to: the melting intuitive linking of movements that occurs as dancers move beyond the science of ballet nearer...