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...mainland there is some clandestine communist agitation, but from my limited and indirect contacts with the shadowy underworld of agents and counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during...
...countered: "Can you ride?" Monnet said yes. "All right," said the man, "take my horse. When you're through, just hitch it up here." Monnet remembers it as his first lesson in pooling resources...
...superhighways of the U.S. are a monument to motion (see color pages). Once, European tourists returned from a visit to the U.S. talking of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Today they talk of the U.S. road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long...
While Chairman Wilson makes policy and handles finances out of Manhattan, cost-conscious President Kerr bosses operations around the country. He has assigned accountants to ride herd over every research project to help determine whether expenses exceed potential results. Two weeks ago, with accountants' recommendations, Avco dropped one developmental program, assigned another to a licensee and beefed up a third with more money -all within three days. "Money means nothing to scientists," says one management spokesman, who happily recalls the occasion when one budget watcher snagged a scientist's purchase order for an $8,500 digital ohmmeter, told...
...past 20 years, the average hourly wage of a steelworker has zoomed from 90½? to $3.82, and the pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado: "Our members used to ride to work on a bicycle and eat cabbage for lunch. Now they own a home, two automobiles, and eat a decent lunch. They don't have to care so much about the union. And this is where our big problem lies-in apathy...