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...most intricate and contentious antitrust struggle of modern times involves a great American dynastic fortune and more than 1,000,000 U.S. investors. When, last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Du Pont company to unload its 23% interest in General Motors, investors in both companies braced for a financial shellacking. It seemed certain that the disputed 63 million shares of G.M. would be distributed as "dividends" to Du Pont's 211,000 common stockholders, who then would have to pay full income taxes on them. Du Pont estimated that its stockholders, many of whom...
...town had been without water and light for weeks; now, everything had been arranged to unload the plane and greet the officials who came along with it from Leopoldville. But as the big U.N. Globemaster rolled to a stop with its cargo of electric generators, everything dissolved into typically Congolese chaos...
...limp economy. The few paved roads and sizable buildings are relics of the Italian occupation. There are no private cars or buses; Albanians travel from village to village by donkey or in open trucks. The only railroad is scarcely 70 miles long, and the main seaport at Durres can unload only one ship at a time...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...
...have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare of every Indian was assured...