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...Britain-that will assure the island's 500 families a kitty of $225 million by the time the phosphate runs out. Under the agreement, deRoburt, 42, more than trebled his people's royalties (to $1.50 a ton, retroactive to July 1, 1964) and extracted yet another price boost (to $1.97), effective next year. The Australian government, which administers the island as a U.N. trust territory, will hold most of the islanders' cash in trust until the time comes to move...
Comfortable Jargon. The Europeans can often talk tougher and act more decisively than the Americans abroad. Pleading for a boost in productivity at Ford Motor Co.'s British branch, Manchester-born Managing Director Allen Barke told 60,000 workers: "Britain's image abroad is lousy" - and they applauded his pep talk. Thanks to management training at their U.S. home offices and such business schools as Harvard and Stanford, the European executives can comfortably speak the jargon of U.S. business ("parameters," "public relations," "cost control"), but they switch on their local dialects to good advantage when dealing with customers...
Furnas Dam raised Brazil's generating capacity to 7,100,000 kw., double the 1960 level and more than all the rest of South America. By 1970, the government will boost capacity another 60% just to stay even with the country's ever-expanding, chronically power-starved markets. Next year, when two more generators go on line, Furnas alone will grow to 1,200,000 kw. (v. 1,974,000 kw. for Grand Coulee, the U.S.'s largest hydro operation...
...monstrous mass of hot hydrogen that spread out to form galaxies still receding from one another? Scientific dispute ranges between those two extremes and swirls around compromises and variations. New evidence seems to support first one theory, then another. Last week it was the Big Bang that got a boost-all because of some faint radio waves filtering gently down from...
...side effect of his appointment was a certain small boost in sales. "I've read several of his books already," said Lance Fletcher, Pierson librarian. "I went out today and ordered the rest for the library...