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...secret folders and quickly made the decision on which troops to start pulling out of Viet Nam. The two 9th Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number of American servicemen in the country will go down by less that 5%?but U.S. ground combat strength will be reduced by nearly...
Nixon's advisers had proposed that he announce withdrawal of as many as 70,000 troops, but with characteristic caution Nixon chose a minimum opening figure of 25,000 (see box, page 18). The number may nonetheless reach 70,000 by the end of this year. Nixon was careful to speak at Midway of their "replacement" by South Vietnamese forces. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird added to the lexicon by christening the plan "Project Vietnamization." By whatever name, Nixon's move was a guarded gamble for peace in South Viet...
...will be headed by Chairman Carter Burgess, former head of American Machine & Foundry, and President Ray Watt, a large West Coast builder. It aims to raise $50 million from large corporations and banks and a public sale of stock. Then it will invest most of the money in a number of partnerships of local builders and small investors. For every dollar that the corporation puts up, each local partnership will put up about three dollars. In addition, these partnerships will get FHA-insured loans under the National Housing Act for up to 90% of the costs of construction. Altogether...
CORPORATIONS have been searching more eagerly than ever this year for recruits among the June graduates of universities. More than ever, too, the students leaving the campuses are armed with graduate degrees. The number of students in graduate business schools has risen 65% since 1964, to 75,000. Compared with the recruits of earlier years, they are more mature, more experienced and vastly more self-assured. Almost anyone with a master's degree in business can start out at a minimum of $12,500 a year, and some get up to $25,000. To find the most promising...
Oilmen argue that the special allowance is necessary to compensate them for the tremendous costs and risks involved in prospecting for oil, and to give them extra incentive to search for more of it. The search has been slowing lately. Since 1957, the number of new wells drilled in the U.S. has dropped 40%; domestic reserves have remained nearly constant but demand for oil has increased by as much as 29%. Two weeks ago, Michael A. Wright, chairman of Humble Oil, told Senator Hart's antitrust subcommittee that 87% of the nation's oil needs by 1985 will...