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President Banda found himself in control of that rarest of African commodities-a politically stable nation. And Banda is the man who keeps it that way. A natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have...
...Hand from Britain. Banda is speaking as the leader of a country that needs all the friends it can get. Plagued by too many people (106 per sq. mi.) and too few natural resources, the country is scarcely self-sufficient, and survives partly on the earnings of 230,000 Malawians who migrate to South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia for temporary jobs in mines and factories. Though independent, Malawi also counts heavily on British help. Total British aid to Malawi in the next three years will run between $25 million and $28 million a year, making Banda's tiny republic...
...gave his boat four more feet of waterline than customary for a 40-footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives...
Ozite is now shipping 1,000,000 sq. yds. a month (retail price $5 per sq. yd.) and expanding production 50% this year. Viewing the recovery of his company, which was founded 100 years ago as a tanners' cooperative, President Richard Kimmel vows: "We won't make the same mistake again by holding on to one product line and saying this is it." Kimmel has already added a foam-backed carpet for indoor commercial use, will doubtless find some way to move Ozite carpets into the living room...
Outfielders squint after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston...