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Grubstake. The French stake in North Africa is prodigious. With its empire in Asia gone, the loss of its African colonies could seal the doom of French claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...
...Westinghouse International's Sales Manager Jose de Cubas, it also crashed the Geneva market with a sales technique that staggered European buyers. At the trade fair, Westinghouse had a small booth with a working model of its Shippingport reactor, but it had long since decided not to depend entirely on mechanical exhibits. Instead, the company took over the entire first floor of the fashionable Genevoise restaurant for the duration of the conference, so industrialists, scientists and newsmen could talk things over and enjoy the free drinks, snacks and cigars. One night the supersalesmen chartered a Lake Geneva steamer, took...
...Hildy McCoy's future happiness going to depend upon her mother's retroactive conscience? The fact that Hildy was born out of wedlock automatically eliminates the vague legal implications of the Roman Catholic prenuptial contract...
...West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers, he said almost contemptuously, but not for strong nations like Russia. The Soviet Union could not depend on the guarantees of others...
Bulganin, as Premier, officially heads the mission, and thus a great deal at Geneva may depend on the character and personality of this 60-year-old marshal. Only in recent months, in the searching and candid lens of foreign cameras, has the world had a good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious...