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...were at least a touchy 41 hours and an argument that remains dangerously unresolved. As a Berlin-bound U.S. convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group of 21 U.S. executives visiting Moscow (see THE WORLD), it could have meant war. "It is a matter of a soldier being a soldier," he said. "If someone...
...large numbers, producing everything from auto tires and heavy steel to photo paper, vermouth and sewing machines. Since 1948, Italian companies have poured $1 billion into Argentine industry, and current investment runs to $1,000,000 a month. Fiat alone has put $140 million into its automotive and truck-tractor plants in Córdoba; the Techint industrial complex outside Buenos Aires represents another $75 million in Italian capital. In 'the export market, Olivetti Argentina is now selling typewriters and calculating machines to Peru and Turkey, Gilera motorcycles from Argentina are buzzing around the U.S., and Fiat electrical motors...
...delay means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...
...seems to have all the drive and flair he needs, but his taste is still a bit green. He tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...
...Palestine-related issue), the U.N.'s truce chief on the scene, Norwegian Lieut. General Odd Bull, left little doubt that Syria had been the aggressor. Backed up by photographs, spent bullets and diagrams, Bull's report told of finding "two dead bodies riddled with holes; a tractor with numerous bullet holes; a magazine from an automatic weapon; a lever handle from a grenade; ... a pool of blood where one man allegedly had been shot, leaving part of his brain; tracks leading from the direction of the Jordan River to the ambush position and the tracks returning...