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Along the River Spree and the miles of adjacent canals where East meets West in Berlin, Communist floodlights play constantly across the water, shore guards listen for every suspicious splash, and East Berlin patrol boats watch for the smallest ripple. Hence the thrill of West Berliners last week at the tale of two East Berlin lads who not only swam to safety, but also dared to swim back across to Communist territory to show their pals the route...
...with a series of inexpensive and interchangeable 14-in. disks that permit it to store hundreds of millions of facts and to perform a wide variety of sophisticated calculations, including those involved in inventory control and profit and loss analysis. Rental: about $2,600 a month, 40% below the smallest business computer previously manufactured...
...staff of Harvard and M.I.T. people have been careful to emphasize the joint nature of the project, even down to the smallest details. In the conference rooms, for instance, Harvard and M.I.T. alumni chairs are carefully alternated. Every sign, every press release includes the name of both institutions. More importantly, the executive committee of the C.E.A., the policy-making body, is composed of five members (three scientists, two administrators) from each of the two universities...
...Greek agreement is likely to provide the basic pattern for other underdeveloped countries. Under its terms, the Six gave Greece-whose per-capita income is only one-quarter of Luxembourg's, the Market's smallest member-22 years to catch up to the Market industrially, at the end of which, if all goes well, it can make the transition to full membership...
...chairman pointed out that the free world already has more than 100 organized markets in which international corporate securities can be traded. Though mostly small by comparison with the great stock exchanges of London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and New York, he said, "even the smallest provides a nucleus for bringing together the technical skills and understanding required for intelligent investment and efficient distribution of the shares of the worldwide corporation...