Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his return home, Kaunda beamingly shook hands with his Cabinet ministers, who had turned out in slogan-emblazoned "freedom shirts." Then he drove through cheering crowds to his neon-lighted United National Independence Party headquarters (formerly a dry-cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome...
...guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born is ready to go ahead with a $16 million superphosphates plant, Columbia Ribbon & Carbon plans an $8,000,000 investment, and Holland's Philips Lamp is set to build a $10 million TV picture-tube factory...
...Small Bites. Once they can read and write, the adults join 384 others in vocational training. At Studebaker's abandoned truck assembly plant, they are taught new skills-data processing, air-conditioning maintenance-by non-professional teachers who are experts at their trade. Says Harry Lane, 46, who gave up his used-car lot and repair shop to become a teacher: "It's like teaching a baby to eat. You have to do it in small bites." But the work is rewarding: "Three men out of my first class are now making more money than they ever made...
...keel for the first vessel-an attack submarine-that it will build in the shipyard it bought last January from Bethlehem Steel. In Groton, Conn., General Dynamics launched its first civilian submarine, a research sub for the University of Pennsylvania. It also broke ground for a lime-processing plant in Detroit and delivered a 160-passenger CL-44 turboprop plane to Icelandic Airlines. Altogether, General Dynamics has rebounded from a 1961 loss of $143 million-the largest deficit ever suffered by any U.S. corporation-to a 1963 profit of $50 million on sales of $1.4 billion...
...senior vice president of New York's First National City Bank (in charge of oil matters). He joined Cities Service just six years ago, became president a year later. The ninth biggest U.S. oil company (1963 sales: $1.2 billion) has lately diversified into businesses as varied as plant foods and copper mining, and under Warren it will continue to explore new fields...