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...trade, GATT found that Western Europe-and particularly the six-nation Common Market-was the only major part of the world that substantially expanded its foreign commerce in 1961. Items: > Total world exports rose 4% last year to $131 billion, but the increase was far below 1960's spurt of 11%. Reason: a general slowdown in economic expansion. >Trade among Western European nations-up from $29 billion to $33 billion -accounted for two-thirds of the world increase in exports. European exports of the Common Market Six were responsible for half the world increase...
Technicians speak of an electron "beam," but it is incorrect to think off the machine as producing a continuous flow of high-energy electrons. In reality, the electrons spurt into the ring from the linear accelerator in bunches of 100 million at the rate of 60 bunches per second. At 16 places in the ring, there are radio-frequency powered acceleration cavities. Each time the electron bunch passes through a cavity, its energy increases. The electron pulses thus receive discrete "kicks" of energy as they orbit, until they have finally reached the energy level desired for any particular experiment...
...worth of business they now do in the U.S. each year. Stripped of the 38.1% tariff advantage that they now enjoy, U.S. watchmakers would almost surely lose most of their domestic sales ($100 million a year) to European competitors. Imports of steel, hi-fi equipment, radios and whisky would spurt forward by at least $100 million each...
...Spurt Up, Trend Down. In any struggle for power between Castro and the Communists, each side has strengths and weaknesses, and very likely there is currently an unsentimental and unresolved alliance. Castro's blunders and the hardships that have resulted have undoubtedly tarnished his hero's image. But he alone still has the charismatic name, the voice, the face, the popular appeal. For their part, the professional Reds have the organizational techniques, the indoctrination textbooks, and a more patient spirit (Roca wanted Castro to lay off the Catholic Church longer, and not to alienate prematurely the technicians needed...
...present, each side has need of the other, but it is a precarious equilibrium, and neither can leave it at that. "If I were plotting a fever chart I'd give Fidel's line a short spurt upward, but surely the trend must point down," says a foreign diplomat in Havana. Working in Roca's favor, say the experts, is the massive indoctrination that has brought 60,000 young Cubans from the countryside to fill expropriated Havana mansions. By day, they learn a trade; by night they learn a Roca brand of Communist discipline. "One day," says...