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...fill it up again, Ben Bella needs Western help. At first, embittered by his 5½ years in French prisons, he blinkered himself to that fact. He threatened to turn all remaining French-owned lands into state-run farms. He sauntered off to Havana to embrace Fidel Castro-right after a meeting with President Kennedy. He accepted what little Red aid he got with great fanfare, but deliberately played down far more extensive help from the West-including a flood of food shipments from private U.S. charities that have kept nearly half of his 10 million people from starving...
Literate Civil Service. All in Paris and all state-run, the three schools last year admitted a mere 458 students. Getting in requires far more than passing bachot exams for university entrance. From the 50% of candidates who pass those stiff exams, a handful of the very brightest stay on at a lycée (secondary school) for two more years of study before tackling the even stiffer exams for grandes écoles...
...South Carolina's state-run Clemson College, which rejected Harvey Gantt, 19, a Charleston mechanic's son who made the National Honor Society in high school, went on to Iowa State as an architectural engineering student. Gantt's request for admission to Clemson is before Federal Judge Cecil C. Wyche, 77, a fair-minded South Carolinian who is expected to rule in Gantt's favor if Clemson fails to disprove discrimination...
Manuelli is accustomed to political pressures. Rising through various state-run companies, he was picked by the first postwar Italian government in 1945 to head the Ansaldo shipyards, immediately became a target for Communist gunmen who had secreted an arsenal there in preparation for a general uprising. Manuelli cleaned out Ansaldo, but had to go around with a revolver in his pocket and with two "escorts" carrying tommy guns. Since he took charge of Finsider in 1958, its sales have risen 45% to last year's $761 million, and production has gone up 55% to 5,100,000 tons...
Hunting for executive talent, state-run companies often raid private industry. When Norway after the war determined to expand an aluminum plant that the German occupiers had built, the government sought the services of slender Aage Owe (pronounced Oh-veh), the chief of a privately owned margarine monopoly. Engineer Owe accepted the presidency of the firm-which became known simply as The Aluminum Co.-only after he won the right to hire his own staff ("I wanted to have the same advantages as my privately owned competitors. I didn't want state bureaucrats...