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Australia woos "new blokes" through lavish advertising campaigns and a big network of immigration officers throughout Britain. But this does not explain the British migration fever. Canada, which actively solicits only professional workers such as nurses and scientists and does not subsidize their passage, expects the 1963 influx from Britain to be double or triple last year's 16,055 total. New Zealand immigration officials say that they too have had a "fantastic" surge of applications. "We're just trying to hold them off," says one. "We just don't have all that much room." One-third...
...fire the Kurds were not idle. Food has been stockpiled, arms replenished, and a standing army of 35,000 readied for battle, backed by a reserve of 100,000. The rebels are buttressed by scores of Kurdish officers who deserted from the Iraqi army, and are linked by a network of 100 captured field radio sets. But at week's end, the government called for more negotiations and promised to reconsider Kurdish demands. In turn, the Kurds agreed to hold up hostilities. "We don't want the responsibility for starting the war again," said a Kurdish spokesman...
Many people think that as FCC chairman, Henry will have an even louder bark than Minow. He speaks dourly of the "discouraging degree of sameness" in network programming and of the "lack of expression of varying tastes, ideas and opinions." And he speaks with the air of someone who intends to try to do something about it. As for Minow's accomplishments, Henry says, "I think there are some green shoots in the wasteland." It might also be said that there is one as chairman...
Suburbia's Lawns. The biggest attraction the U.S. has for overseas companies is its highly developed market for sophisticated products; often foreigners buy into a U.S. company to get an established trade name and marketing network. One of the main advantages that Italy's Olivetti gained from buying the money-losing Underwood Corp. was its office-machine sales organization. Hopes of spreading its fertilizer on U.S. suburbia's broad lawns led Britain's Fisons Ltd. to buy an 80% control of Doggett-Pfeil Co., a New Jersey garden-supply producer. France's largest electronics firm...
...brief, Le Corbusier advocated "cities of tomorrow" composed of immense, largely self-contained apartment blocks, widely spaced in open parks. Bands of superhighways would weave about these superblocks, while a network of smaller roads and pedestrian walks would connect individual units...