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...gap yawns nowhere wider than in France, where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
Charles Sims, the man, lives up to his press clippings. He is underworldly, too brazenly intimidating to be called sinister. He has beady eyes. He sneers humorlessly, through a gap in his gums where two teeth used to be. He is paunchy, but the excess bulk only adds to the overall projection of power. Somehow, one feels, that must be muscle bulging over his belt...
...recipient countries devote as much effort to increasing agricultural production as they do to prestige-building industrial projects, they could face a cutoff of U.S. food. Otherwise, he says, within 20 years the combined capacity of the U.S. and the Western world will not be sufficient to fill the gap. Said Freeman: "World hunger can be finally solved only in those areas where it is most prevalent." It can be done. In twelve of 26 new nations, crop increases averaged 5.6% yearly between...
...third place, pointed out that it is closing the gap. So which network is really winning? Actually, none. When the Nielsens of prime-time programs are averaged, they show that 1,900,000 fewer people are watching the typical show this fall than last. Comparing just the new programs of the two seasons, the listenership loss is 2,800,000. This should give TV programmers little to crow about considering that, since last year, the number of U.S. households with TV sets has jumped...
...role is not a new one for Barnaby. Every year he digs into his supply of inexperienced prep school graduates and converted tennis players to find replacements for his top seniors. Last year Barnaby had to fill gap left by a graduating national champion and four other three-year lettermen. This year he is without his top four players, all of whom have graduated...