Word: rebuilders
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Died. Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 70, retired head of France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), with an output of 291,176 vehicles and $573 million in sales last year, who in 1945 took over the family business, had to rebuild its bombed-out and dismantled factories, nevertheless started producing cars again the same year, kept the Peugeot one of Europe's best-made, if somewhat stodgily styled, medium-priced cars; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Moscow Philharmonic before coming to the U.S. in 1922, held down the first chair in Philadelphia and Chicago, won the label "Toscanini's third hand" during the 15 years he played under the great Italian at the NBC Symphony. He moved to Detroit in 1952, where he helped rebuild the orchestra from scratch. A patriarch in baggy pants and sports shirts, Mischakoff is a demanding but amicable leader, prides himself on his collection of shredded manuscripts and broken batons cast aside by the terrible-tempered Toscanini...
...Hall counted 43 persons clustered around. Some were perched on stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon would have used free grafts and implant materials...
Neither bullets nor ballots will produce the ultimate victory in Viet Nam. What is needed is an effort by the Vietnamese themselves to rebuild their society in towns and villages. Last week Premier Ky paid tribute to a unique example of Vietnamese selfhelp. It took root a year ago, when a dozen youth leaders petitioned him to let them take over an entire province and demonstrate what they could offer in leadership. Ky would not go that far, but to their surprise handed them complete administrative control of Saigon's District 8-a squalid, 3-sq.-mi. slum packed...
With that, "Balaguer launched into the first public details of his program to rebuild the tired, war-shattered nation. "The first step in this direction," he said, "must consist of an austerity policy which will act not as a bomb, but as a scalpel upon the ulcers that must be cut out in cold blood." The ulcers - inflation, corruption, political favoritism and inefficiency - would not disappear easily, Balaguer warned, and his surgery would be "painful...