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...With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...
...members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that the congress be "postponed indefinitely." It would, he said, only "sharpen political tensions...
France took on this unpromising territory largely by happenstance. When Britain in 1890 agreed to concede France a free hand in the Sahara, Lord Salisbury commented: "Let the Gallic cock sharpen his spurs in the desert sand." But for nearly half a century virtually the only Frenchmen to show much interest in the desert sands were adventurers and eccentrics. Tindouf, now one of the French army's most important Sahara outposts, was not occupied until 1934, and the last of the marauding desert bands was not brought under control until...
...earned U.S. tax dollars to build up tough foreign competition for taxpaying U.S. businesses.) What businessmen can do, say U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns and fellow officials, is cut the lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says many an economist (see State of Business), is face up to the fact that it can no longer afford raises not balanced by gains in productivity. The alternative will be an accelerating loss in markets-and eventually jobs...
Currently in the depths of a three game losing streak, the varsity would like nothing better than to sharpen up for this weekend's important contests with Princeton and Penn by winning...