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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mellowed Fervor. One priceless product of the economic boom is a new confidence on the part of both Mexicans and foreigners. Born of the 1910 revolution, Mexico's one-party regime has often frightened investors with land seizures, expropriation and talk of leftward drift. But time has mellowed revolutionary fervor. Though the government still controls such basic industries as oil, railroads and electric power, Mexico's present political leaders have created a healthy climate in which private enterprise is actively encouraged. As a result, Mexicans have taken their money from Swiss and U.S. banks and invested...
...liner, the France, carries it across the seas. French military power, so often frustrated, can take at least symbolic pride in its minuscule atomic strike force. The nation's population, which had been shrinking before the war, has grown from 40 to 48 million, and the gross national product from $31 billion to $72 billion. Class feeling is being diminished by the embourgeoisement of the workers, more and more of whom reach a level of prosperity where a four-week vacation and a small car are the norm-although inflation and wretched housing still bedevil them...
Lean Staffs. The compact, single-plant companies, many of them years older than the giants, also pride themselves on being more flexible, can quickly change their product mix to accommodate special orders. "We can cook steel to order in 20 minutes," says Vice President Grady L. Roark of Chicago's Acme Steel. With lean executive staffs, the smaller companies can also reorganize in a hurry to combat tough times. Delaware's long-ailing Phoenix Steel has been revamped in 19 months by new President Stanley Kirk, who has turned red ink to black by cutting the production force...
...Mother's Kisses is an even funnier book than Stern, Friedman's highly praised first novel, but it is somewhat less well organized and smaller in scope. And it is partly a product of cannibalization-several long sections are based on earlier short stories-raising a question of Friedman's ability to break new ground. His Stern was fresh, vigorous and unsettling. A Mother's Kisses fully merits only the two latter adjectives. But few other current novels can claim as much...
...other hand, an important breakthrough is at hand in the aerosol packaging of medicine and food. In these fields, aerosol cans have the special advantage of exposing to the air only whatever quantity of a product is actually used. There are various propellants (the pressurized gases that push the product out of the can) that are safe for most foods or drugs. However, the industry has had trouble developing different ways of combining container, valve and propellant at a reasonable cost. There will soon be radioactive inhalants for lung cancer patients, inhalant vaccines, allergens, and aerosol insulin to replace injections...