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...least 300,000 Corvair '60s, plus 1,500,000 standard Chevies. If he does, he will beat 1955's alltime Chevy sales record of 1,720,000. He also expects the U.S. market to be big enough next year for all comers, big and small, to prosper. "Car sales for 1960," says Cole, "should be at least 6,900,000, including imports...
United, We Prosper. The French government and private investors are already pouring a million dollars a day into schools and roads, water prospecting, and most of all, the development of the desert's proven oil and gas reserves. By 1964 France hopes to be pumping 30 million tons of oil a year out of the Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight...
Baarle's chief occupation, naturally, is smuggling. Even legitimate businessmen can prosper by setting up their establishments on both sides of the border and operating in whichever country happens to offer the more favorable price levels and the lower taxes. "From the cradle to the grave," says Dutch Burgomaster Franciscus de Grauw of Baarle-Nassau, "our actions violate the law." "But," adds his Belgian colleague, Burgomaster Jan Loots of Baarle-Hertog, "we feel 100% delighted with the situation...
...with two fingers on his typewriter, Streeter calls for a gradual reduction of the Government's subsidy program, an increase in vigorous, quality-conscious farmer-cooperatives to the point where they can influence prices. Says Carroll Streeter, invoking the same rugged independence that has made the Farm Journal prosper: "What we want for the farmer is less support in return for more freedom...
...Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery." Catchy as the slogan is, and eager as they, are to make the city prosper, Venice's city councilors last week were still resisting both automobiles and skyscrapers...