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...emblem of the sleek five-seater produced by the Bayerische Motoren Werke. The BMW can outperform and overtake almost any standard German car on the autobahn. This year it proved that it could outdo its competitors in the market place as well: amidst a general economic slowdown and dwindling car sales in Germany, peppery little BMW is forging steadily ahead...
...best-equipped NATO force on the Continent, are deployed in the first layer of defense along the Iron Curtain from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. Bonn's plans called for an expansion of the Bundeswehr over the next few years, but Kiesinger's Cabinet, worried about the economic slowdown in West Germany, two weeks ago decided to cut military expansion plans by about 25%. When a jet passed low over the Palais Schaumburg, in which the Cabinet was meeting, Interior Minister Paul Lücke cracked: "Schroder is calling out his Starfighters against us." Schroder was not amused...
...planes last year, is doing no better so far in 1967. More troubled is Wichita's Lear Jet, which found itself stuck with $9,000,000 worth of unsold planes, had to merge last spring with Gates Rubber to get needed working capital. The slowdown is not confined to American makers. Britain's Hawker Siddeley, which delivered 65 of its jets to U.S. corporations between 1964 and 1966, sold only seven more during this year's first five months...
Having survived that slowdown, Bulova is now keeping better time than ever. Over the past eight years, the company has doubled annual sales, to $123 million, and increased earnings by 150%, to $3.8 million. Two men are most responsible for Bulova's improved fortunes. The first is General Omar N. Bradley, 74, who was brought into the company in 1953 by Arde Bulova, son of the Czechoslovak immigrant who founded Bulova as a small Manhattan jewelry shop in 1874. When Arde died in 1958, Bradley succeeded him as chairman. The following year, Arde's nephew, Harry Bulova Henshel...
...officials denied any implication that the shift would mean a permanent slowdown in desegregation efforts; indeed centralization might in time speed up integration of welfare programs and of nursing homes. Unquestionably, though, it will result in at least a temporary pause while administrative gears are shifted. For Gardner, one of the ablest and most popular Administration figures on Capitol Hill, the shift promises nothing but trouble. Asked if it meant "transferring the kitchen across the street"-putting the heat on him instead of Howe-Gardner smiled wanly and replied: "I wouldn't be surprised...