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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON. Founded eleven years ago in Moscow as a crude Stalinist device for milking the satellites for Soviet benefit, COMECON was transformed into some thing more palatable after the 1956 Polish and Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned...
...were schemes for an African development bank and an African economic council to coordinate tariffs and study currency problems. But their week had proved that, deprived of the threat of colonialism as the overall enemy, many of the new African states have about as many differences as causes in common...
...wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta Petacci, dangled by the heels. Political passion is not a common Milanese trait, and few like to recall that lynching...
...will meet this week to decide on the deal and what price they will pay. They will have to hustle. The C. & O. has already hired Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith to solicit B. & O. stockholders to accept its offer. The C. & O. will exchange one share of its common (worth about $63) for each if shares of B. & O. common or each share of B. & O. preferred. Perlman said his road is in a position "to make a better offer...
...Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo to the Pocahontas coal region of the Virginias. The merged roads would rank among the nation's top ten, have a 4,964-mile network with assets of $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the merger agreement, one share of Nickel Plate common would be exchanged for .45 of a share of Norfolk & Western. Since the two lines do not now link, the merger is contingent upon their obtaining an agreement from the Pennsy to connect over a m-mile link in Ohio...