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American Emigrants. Though Australia plows a tremendous 25% of its gross national product into investment, it courts foreign capital to supplement the limited local supply. Foreign investment during the nine months ending March 31 amounted to $708 million, an increase of 38% over the preceding twelve months. North American investment has doubled in the past five years, now amounts to $2 billion. With the investment has come a growing flow of U.S. emigrants looking for new frontiers. Last year 2,280 Americans settled Down Under...
Soothing Fears. One reason for Thompson's widespread support among the assembly rank and file was his work on behalf of the most controversial item on the agenda: the Confession of 1967. First presented to the 1965 assembly, the new creed is intended to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647. The aim was to draft a new creed that did not abrogate any previous statement of faith accepted by the church, including the Apostles' Creed, but merely supplied a new emphasis to traditional belief...
Each of the five Senior Advisor in the Yard will determine how he wishes to use a group of ten associates to supplement the resident advisor system, which will remain unchanged...
...route-a supplement to the maze of paths and roads leading south called the Ho Chi Minh Trail-was discovered by the Laotian air force, whose commander, Brigadier General Thao Ma, had been keeping a close eye on Cambodia since last September. About that time, Ma received reports of activity along the Se Kong River, a tributary of the Mekong. Near its banks could be heard the sound of blasting and rumble of heavy equipment in a region virtually empty of inhabitants. By early April, Ma's aviators could follow the trail for 60 miles from Cambodia to where...
...uses sexy ads is Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel. Norman, according to a probably apocryphal industry story, put some sex into soap advertising with the Ajax White Knight (symbolizing strength and power) after a psychiatrist told him that 90% of housewives would like to supplement their sex lives. "Sex has always been a part of advertising," says Norman, "but it has usually stayed on the fringe. Now we are encouraging our copywriters to talk more openly and liberally about...