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...pickup trucks (55% of the 16 million on the road) and of the vastly more expensive behemoths of the highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected to triple...
Dangerous Imbalance. Under the treaty, the Soviets agreed to pay part of the upkeep costs of their troops, but the Czechoslovaks are obligated to furnish the garrisons with barracks. The Soviet air force is taking over five fields, from which it will fly MIG-21 interceptors and SU-7 and YAK-28 Firebar fighter-bombers. All in all, the Soviets will leave behind a force sufficient to keep the Czechoslovaks in line and NATO worried about the threat to West Germany's exposed southern flank...
Named Dark Mirage, the filly went to the post 15 times in 1967, won only two races and $19,906-barely enough to repay her purchase price and upkeep. Her first start this year as a three-year-old was equally unimpressive: she finished fourth, beaten by 7½ lengths. What has happened since beggars belief. Dark Mirage, almost certainly the smallest thoroughbred in training in the U.S., has not lost a race...
...volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
...University has indicated that because of its complex budgeting procedures all the Houses, Mather included, will have to pay for themselves. The total upkeep of the Houses will have to be balanced by the rents collected from students. If, as is to be hoped, no one is forced back to the campus and the rooms are thus filled with men from other Houses, this position amounts to a demand for a raise in room rents...