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...first problem. There has been heartening progress. Besides the none-too-reliable military Atlases that put the first Mercury astronauts in their orbits, the U.S. now has the Air Force Titan II, which is just starting its tests but is already considered a very reliable bird. Its structure is stiffer than the thin-skinned Atlas, and its two stages have thrust enough (430,000 Ibs. and 100,000 Ibs.) to make the next big advance in space, orbiting the two-man Gemini capsule around the earth...
...German firm since the war. a group of twelve lending institutions headed by Morgan Stanley and Arnhold & Bleichroeder have lent Siemens $25 million as part of its two-year, $250 million expansion (much of which will be paid for out of profits). With expanded plant, Siemens intends to give stiffer competition in world markets to its three bigger U.S. competitors−General Electric. Western Electric and Westinghouse−and to increase sales from last year's $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion next year...
Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...
Goal of Greatness. In 1960, Occidental men won two of the eleven Rhodes scholarships awarded in the West, plus ten Woodrow Wilson fellowships for prospective college teachers, the same number as giant U.C.L.A. Against stiffer competition this year, Oxy got four more Wilson fellowships and another Rhodes (U.S. total: 32). the seventh in its history...
...Administration bill contend that the vast majority of foreign subsidiaries are set up not to dodge taxes but to develop new markets that cannot be served from U.S. plants because of tariffs, transport costs, higher U.S. production costs-or the simple difficulty of selling at long range. With stiffer tax rules, U.S. businessmen would be faced with a hard choice: either they would have to concede many of these markets to hustling and lower-taxed competitors from Europe and Japan, or they would have to export even more dollars than they now do to keep their foreign plants competitive...