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I.M.C. is a small outfit ($299 million net sales in 1966) compared to some of its competitors in Madrid, but it offered the most experienced fertilizer-producing and marketing network that was available. The firm has mined phosphates in Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world...
...seldom more than 15 ft., and fields separated by 10-ft.-high hedgerows. One company was within a mile of Con Thien when it was pinned down by fire from the seemingly deserted village of Trung An. The North Vietnamese had built of logs, trees and dirt an astonishing network of 300 holes throughout Trung An, were so well burrowed that even the U.S. bombers' 1,000-pounders and napalm failed to root them out. The leathernecks called up big M48 tanks to break through the hedgerows and roll right up atop the enemy bunkers...
...nation's biggest intercity passenger carrier, with a 102,181-mile route network covered by 5,422 buses, the Greyhound Corp. could presumably leave well enough alone with its slogan: "Leave the driving to us." But it hasn't. Over the past five years, Greyhound has reached off the highway to buy nine firms, set up a dozen more on its own. Among other things, it now leases locomotives and jetliners, runs tours, caters food, rents computers, writes insurance. And in Los Angeles last week, President Gerald H. Trautman promised that the company would continue "actively looking...
Carson had NBC at his mercy, of course. Thanks to his popularity, the network is dominant in the late-night time slot, but the other networks and independent challengers were moving in to get a piece of the action. CBS, whose affiliates generally run movies opposite Carson, tried to buy him away from NBC, but as Johnny put it, "I would feel as out of place on another network as Lurleen Wallace giving a half-time pep talk to the Harlem Globetrotters...
...monologue mocking the economics of the TV industry. It was good enough to prompt critical applause and comparisons with the then reigning comic, George Gobel. "The kid is great, just great," said Jack Benny the next day. Thus was Johnny rewarded at 29 with his own variety network TV show. He thrashed through image changes, seven writers, eight directors and 39 weeks before CBS replaced him with The Arthur Murray Show, ABC then tried him on a daytime show, Who Do You Trust? The quiz part of the program was downplayed just as in Groucho Marx...