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Today, CAT's 17,000 employees operate in 19 Arab, African and Asian countries. Apart from its reputation as a topflight builder, CAT's chief asset is Bustani's keen awareness of the touchy sensitivities of underdeveloped nations. Whenever he enters a new country, he insists on setting up a local subsidiary, encourages local investors to buy stock, and makes it clear that he intends the company to be locally run. Says he: "When we went into Pakistan seven years ago, we sent more than 100 people there from Beirut. Now we have only three Beirut staffers...
Elbows & Springs. Most topflight college teams rely primarily on the all-round wizardry of one gifted player. Kentucky has its Cotton Nash, Duke has Art Heyman, and pre-Jucker Cincinnati had Robertson. This year's Bearcat squad has no one player whose talent towers over the rest; instead, it is a well-coordinated collection of specialists. Center George Wilson is a 6-ft. 8-in. giraffe from Chicago who turned down 89 other college offers to go to Cincinnati; his job is to control the backboards, and his sharp elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds...
...topflight drug companies, the new law will make little difference; their standards are already high. But second-team companies will have to raise their standards of quality and rigid control. That will cost money and hurt them competitively. Some borderline drugmakers may be put out of business. The keeping of many more detailed records will be costly to all companies. The new law cannot be expected to lower the prices of any drugs, and may actually raise some by a few cents. Key provisions: > No new drug can be marketed until the manufacturer has satisfied the FDA that...
...classroom as 25 students raptly watched the bluish TV screen before them. The show was their French teacher, a precise little woman saying "Nous lirons la leçon encore," and for half an hour the youngsters eagerly tried to reproduce her impeccable accent. So last week a topflight white teacher drilled Negro students in a small high school in rural South Carolina...
...ROBERT McArEE BROWN, 41, Auburn professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary. Presbyterian Brown, who will transfer to Stanford this fall, sees himself as a "filter through which the thoughts of the great pass on to the layman, the translator of topflight minds to those who haven't had three years in a seminary." A graduate of Amherst and Union Theological, he served as a Navy chaplain at the end of World War II. One of Brown's first teaching assignments, eleven years ago, took him to Macalester College in Minnesota, where he got to know...