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...Chinese experts are helping African farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
Raising Doubts. The accusations hit Wall Street at a time when it is already awash in problems. The stock exchanges are battling the Government in defense of their lucrative but controversial system of fixed minimum commissions. As part of an eight-month effort to unsnarl the paperwork jam that has slowed brokers' back-office operations, the exchanges and over-the-counter market last week decided to remain on a four-day trading week throughout September. Beyond all that, the Merrill Lynch case is clearly Wall Street's newest, worst nightmare, if only because it is bound to raise...
...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...
...Midwest, where the railroad map is incredibly tangled, several efforts are under way to unsnarl it. The aggressive Chicago & North Western, run by Ben Heineman, has merger agreements worked out with the Chicago Great Western, and would like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most...
Gapers' Block. Veteran traffic reporters get a thrill out of unsnarling a traffic jam and speeding frustrated motorists on their way. "When I mention an alternative route, I can actually see the traffic swing, and I know they're listening," says Frank Burany of Milwaukee's WTMJ. "A guy has to be clean out of his head not to appreciate it." Often, a watcher cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband...