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Jackson's sharpest words were aimed at the State Department: "No task is more urgent than improving the effectiveness of the Department of State. State is not doing enough in asserting its leadership across the whole front of foreign policy. It attaches too little importance to looking ahead. State needs more officials who are good executive managers, who have an ability to manage large-scale enterprises-to make decisions promptly and decisively, to delegate and to monitor. Round pegs in square holes are a luxury we cannot afford...
Perhaps the sharpest impact of the imports is psychological. The knowledge that outside sources are readily available has encouraged steel users to operate on much leaner inventories than in the past. More important, breakthroughs in electronic data processing make possible far tighter inventory controls, have helped customers to cut steel stockpiles from 20 million tons before 1956 to 10 million tons now. At the same time, steel is being pinched by the general leveling-off in hard goods (TIME, Sept. 8), and the torpor in major steel-using industries, e.g., oil, housing, railroads...
Wall Street professionals found plenty of reasons for the rise: brisk auto sales, some cooling of the Berlin crisis, and the expectation of more Government spending in the wake of last week's Democratic election victories. But the sharpest spur to the market came from General Motors Corp., which raised its annual dividend from $2 to $2.50 per share by declaring its first year-end extra dividend since the record auto-sales year of 1955. Avowedly based on the prospect of fast year-end auto sales-because of the August auto strike, G.M.'s third-quarter earnings were...
...such left-leaning states as Ghana, Guinea and Mali, which sent "observers" to the Communist Party Congress. Nigeria, the most stable former colony south of the Sahara, and the Brazzaville group of twelve former French territories are especially suspicious of Red intentions. The Congo, once Moscow's sharpest spearhead in Africa, may be inching toward stability even though Communist embassies are reappearing in Leopoldville...
...students drop out of school when they reach the legal age, usually 16. Two-thirds of the dropouts fail to find jobs; even among those who get high school diplomas, roughly half cannot get work. The massive idleness of slum-dwelling men aged 16 to 21 is the sharpest problem Conant found...