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...Telemovie system proves a long-run success, Video plans to spread it across the U.S. to fatten its own chain of 112 movie houses and 63 drive-ins, broaden it to include live plays, sports and musical events...
Canada's new Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker flew home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in London last week, where he had persuaded the other delegates to start mapping ways to broaden trade within the Commonwealth. In Ottawa he announced a drastic Canadian proposal to carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist...
...announced that he planned changes that "would be obvious to any American newspaper operator." Moving into the Scotsman's gingerbread headquarters on Edinburgh's North Bridge, Thomson stepped up news of the Commonwealth and hired longtime Glasgow Daily Record Editor Alastair M. Dunnett to brighten and broaden the influential Scotsman's local coverage...
...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
...Truth. Last year, after weeks of discussion, the monks decided to broaden their cultural bridge. With the agreement of Sultan Mohammed V, they built a lecture hall, laid foundations for a tent city and gardens, sent invitations to the world's universities for scholars to attend a three-week seminar on social, religious and political problems, e.g., "The Role of Women in International Life," "The Black World and Modern Civilization." The conference was a success; some 150 students from 18 European, Asian and African countries attended the lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into...