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...founder and ironfisted boss of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Cosmopolite Colonel Sosthenes Behn built a $603 million communications empire that stretches from New Zealand to the Americas to Sweden. With 29 manufacturing companies scattered through 20 nations, Behn was still not satisfied. Since World War II he has put I.T. & T. in the consumer-goods business, now turns out such items as Capehart-Farnsworth radio & TV sets and Coolerator refrigerators, in addition to a broad range of microwave, switchboard and other communications equipment. But in Behn's empire all was not well. Last week Behn discreetly announced that...
...going to fall. Dulles began to search for a countermove that would shore up the West's bargaining power. He decided to propose a conference on "united action" in Indo-China by ten powers-the U.S., Britain, France, the Associated Indo-Chinese states, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia...
...Though it had indeed pleased India's Nehru, it had risked Commonwealth ties in other quarters, annoying Australia and New Zealand, which are both anxious to get on with the Southeast Asia alliance for their own security...
FOREIGN BUTTER PRODUCERS are up in arms against Agriculture Secretary Benson's plan to sell surplus U.S butter overseas at low prices (42? to 47? a lb., v. about 58? in the U.S.). Both New Zealand and Australia, which export about 500 million Ibs. of butter annually, have protested to the State Department that Benson's cut-rate prices constitute dumping. But Benson still plans to go ahead; in fact, he is adding surplus corn, barley, oats and rye to his cut-rate foreign offerings...
...week's end, Dulles tried to patch together a few scraps from the debris-though the Indo-China conference had not yet even formally begun. He called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...