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...hardly My Fair Lady. But then again, neither is Hugo. He is a two-ton, five-year-old behemoth who in the course of a busy year has become the scourge of peasant farmers outside Dar es Salaam, the embarrassment of Tanzania's game department, the favorite of Tanzania's children, the object of a crusade by the nation's animal lovers, and the talk of the whole country...
...International Minerals & Chemical Corp. is building a $68 million, 418,000-ton-a-year plant in the southeastern state of Andhra...
...Armour & Co. has signed a preliminary agreement with the Birla Gwalior industrial group to build a $50 million, 220,000-ton fertilizer firm...
...other vessels at record rates-1,000 in the past month alone. But the biggest prize last week fell to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...statistical omens, if only they could count on the continuation of consumer confidence-the supreme factor in auto sales. Not only has that confidence been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their...