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...Wallenbergs either control outright-or persuasively advise-no fewer than 50 Swedish companies, or more than half of Sweden's industry. Directly under Wallenberg management are most of Sweden's international companies, including plane-and automaking SAAB, the $275 million telephone equipment manufacturer L. M. Ericsson, the $500 million ballbearing producer SKF, and Stora Kopparberg, a diversified mining and mineral complex (TIME, March 15). The family also guides Stockholm's largest department store and the company that runs the city's three most luxurious restaurants. In no other industrialized nation in the world does one family...
...19th century, Harvard builders had followed contemporary trends on some occasions and completely reshaped them on others. In the first major period of construction in the 20th century, both of these practices were abandoned in favor of an outright return to classical forms. This apparently was done chiefly to suit the wishes of President A. Lawrence Lowell, a man of reactionary tastes, who selected a Georgian style for the buildings of his House System in the 1930's. In making such a choice, Lowell was following the theories of gentleman architect, Thomas Jefferson, who had advocated the use of classic...
...estimates, an American SST Mach 2 would cost about $12 million to $15 million apiece, while a Mach 3 would cost $20 million. The British and French are planning to sell the Concorde for less than $10 million. One difference is that the two European governments donated $500 million outright to develop the Concorde, while the U.S. government expects to be paid back for much of what it advances. has lost money for the past two years. In a typically complex deal, the trio used an incredibly low-priced ticket to ride far on Lionel's tracks. They...
...political freedom from arbitrary rule, even economic freedom from "capitalist exploitation"?all these greatly troubled past ages, but by and large they are no longer at issue in the U.S. Today's champions of the individual do not worry about religious persecution but about religious blandness, not about outright tyranny but about creeping collectivism, not about economic exploitation but blind and well-paid loyalty...
...thus inviting U.S. intervention, which they wished to avoid at all costs. Despite protests by both Souvanna and the U.S., the Pathet Lao's territorial grab was a fait accompli. There were those in the U.S. who thought the only long-range answer to the Laos problem was outright partition. Already a de facto partition of Laos existed: the northern part of the country was firmly controlled by the Communists, and the rice-rich Mekong River valley was in the hands of the rightists...