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...years Soviet foreign policy and Soviet policy generally has been based upon two principles: namely, intolerance of any non-Communist system . . . and also upon the policy of using violence as a means of getting their results . . . Those policies have gradually ceased to produce any results . . . They have got to revamp their whole creed from A to Z. It is a tremendous process for them because they have got to undo the teaching of many years and get onto a new basis . . . The unity and firmness and resolution of the free nations during the past few years have caused the Soviet...
...founders, paid out $22.5 million to J. Myer Schine for the hotel and 1,000 acres of land. Davis, who owns 1,336,824 shares (6.5%) of Alcoa common stock and ranks among the world's richest men (one estimate: well over $350 million), plans to revamp the club into a resort for millionaires, cut up the land into estates. Said Davis: "While Florida will always offer ideal home sites for the middle income group, we [must] provide also for the group whose accomplishments enable them to enjoy the finest...
Looking Backward. Last week Minister Berthoin not only proposed that the secondary schools completely revamp their programs to take care of all French school children up to the age of 16, he also suggested that all current examinations, including the bachot, be abolished. With that, the Paris press erupted. Former Education Minister André Marie declared that despite its "injustices," the bachot should stay. Onetime Boxing Champion Georges Carpentier bluntly announced: "I am against the baccalauréat." Actor Jean-Louis Barrault said, "I adore it," but Actor Sacha Guitry, who spent six terms in one form, snorted: "Tellme, what...
...time a sewing machine stays on the assembly line from 14 to 10 days, tightened up techniques so that a Necchi is built with only 15 man-hours. As a consultant, he hired N. Richard Miller, 32, a Harvard Business School graduate and production expert, to revamp production. Miller expects to increase efficiency by 50%, cut assembly-line time to seven days...
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, second biggest in New England (after the New Haven), will spend $11.2 million to revamp its passenger service, has ordered twelve diesels. a fleet of 55 high-speed, self-propelled stainless-steel commuter cars to be built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. Delivery date...