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...interest and concern. As far back as 1956 TIME arranged a conference on housing that proved so helpful to representatives of all the areas involved that it has become an annual event. Similarly, there have been meetings of experts under TIME'S auspices on the future of air transport, overseas investments and the role of Congress. Four...
Boyer also proposed that Harvard share the shuttle bus system to transport students and personnel between the dormitories and Soldiers Field or the Business School...
...world trade. "We have established in recent years the most planified market that ever existed," said Louis Camu, chairman of the Banque de Bruxelles. "Every day the price for eggs, for example, is fixed by a computer in Brussels and then transmitted to the people who buy, sell and transport them. What is astonishing is that the system works. Of course, there is a need for change, but the agricultural voters are influential and their trade unions are strong. Before we can start bringing prices down by importing food from the U.S., there will be a very long struggle...
...Phnom-Penh, residents were urged to cut down on their use of petroleum; the city was said to have only a three-day supply of gasoline on hand for private transport. To make matters worse, a fire destroyed one of Phnom-Penh's two electricity generators, blacking out half of the city and stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the midst of scorching 95° heat. If the harassing Communist blockade could not be broken, U.S. officials said, food, fuel and ammunition would have to be brought in by a U.S. airlift...
...point of view, the terms of the Paris agreement on Viet Nam make it extremely important that the Phnom-Penh government be saved from collapse. The danger is that if most of Cambodia should fall to the Communists, the North Vietnamese and their allies would be able to transport military reinforcements to Cambodia by sea, thereby substantially reducing their reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would be able to 'claim that they were observing the letter of the Viet Nam and Laos cease-fire agreements, even as they built up immense military pressure on South Viet...