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...European industry has not only learned to cut costs and compete, but to cooperate. Some 250 private trade and merchandising associations have mushroomed, ranging from the huge Common Market Association of Chemical Industries to the European Bed Union, from the Common Market Association of Beer Wholesalers to the European Brush Man ufacturers. Acronyms abound: Euromalt (malt makers), Euromaisers (corn producers), Unecolait (dairymen) and Uni-pede (the European Committee for the Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy...
...Stateside units of Air Force's Tactical Air Command. The new joint command is designed to speed up the airlift of U.S. troops to overseas trouble spots and to guarantee them close aerial support once they swing into action. In particular, the command will aim at fighting limited, brush-fire wars wherever the Communists might strike a match around the world...
...wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special session's demand to vote new farm...
...brush-clean, flag-bedecked Belgrade last week came an emperor, two kings and two princes, three foreign ministers, six prime ministers and nine presidents.-Representing 23 countries, they had been invited by Yugoslavia's President Tito for a Conference of Unaligned Nations...
...football scholarships, but he rejected them all, happy to give up the game. "I hated every minute of it," he remembers, "worrying all the time that I might get my nose splashed over my face, or my teeth kicked in." During high school days, he got his first, unpromising brush with the acting profession-as a rat watcher at the National Theater in Washington. "I was supposed to stand in the alley and keep the rats from going in the stage door," he explains. "I never saw any rats, except onstage...