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...tanks, 60 of them Russian and Czech vehicles in the 30- and 35-ton class, plus four new 43-ton T-54 Soviet tanks that have night-fighting, infra-red sights and mount a 100-mm. gun, can outperform anything except the newest...
...funds appeal to small investors because they provide great diversity and professional management. But the fund buyer pays commissions of up to 8%. How do the professional managers fare? With the rising market of the last ten years, nearly all the funds show impressive gains. But few outperform the market. The big funds have not increased in value as fast as blue chips. "Sure," says Joseph E. Welch, executive vice president of the $651 million Wellington Fund. "With the benefit of hindsight, an investor might have done better to put his money into some of the blue chips...
...total of 157 SBA-sponsored courses for small-business executives. With better executive training, more generous rewards for talented men, and continued emphasis on the individual pride of accomplishment that has traditionally attracted U.S. businessmen to independent companies, most small-business leaders today are confident that they can outperform, even outgrow the biggest companies in the U.S. As one vice president said at a small-business seminar in Manhattan last week: "My company's bigger now than G.M. was 40 years...
Theoretically, said Roboff, nuclear power plants will "outperform all existing types of power-generating plants." Such plants are not now being built, he told an audience of engineers in Manhattan, because "we do not yet have materials of construction that can withstand the severity of conditions which would exist within a power reactor operating with ultrahigh power output." Some of the major kinks that must be ironed out, according to Roboff, before commercial nuclear power becomes "really attractive and generally available...
...decision to raise tariffs on bicycles, the President paid tribute to the skill of foreign manufacturers, mostly British, who make lightweight bicycles that outperform heavier U.S. varieties. If U.S. bicyclemakers would follow the foreign example, said the President, U.S. industry would benefit. Nevertheless, he penalized the foreign manufacturers with a 50% tariff increase...