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Meanwhile ABC, which closed the gap on the competition for the first time ast season, momentarily dropped out of contention again, primarily for riding too long with fading favorites. The network was caught with seven of the bottom 13 Nielsens, including the eight-year-old Donna Reed Show, 13-year-old Ozzie and Harriet. With the early-season tide running against the teen scene, the two segments of Shindig are being cancelled, and Ben Casey's slide to 73rd seemed to indicate that the doctor series are sickening unto death. Even ABC's Peyton Place may be past...
...Wide Gap. Controlling the two prestigious branches of Hong Kong and Singapore, the Communists have used their footholds to good advantage. Through these banks they funnel funds to such Communist organizations as the New China News Agency, bring back to Red China an estimated $132 million each year in hard currency remitted by overseas Chinese to mainland relatives. The bank's London office is now handling transactions amounting to $52 million in pounds sterling, which Japan is paying for recent purchases of Chinese corn, rice and soybeans. Communist branches also give generous loans to importers who handle Chinese goods...
...Widening Gap. Despite a three-year campaign to improve the quality of exports, the regime admits that only 10% of East Germany's production is as good as Western output. Partly because the Scandinavians and some other West ern buyers have complained that East German products fall apart after a few months' use, the country's sales to the West have flattened out at 16% of its $3 billion export total-of which West Germany takes 10% and Russia 50%. Moreover, the economic gap between East and West Germany is widening. Though the East should be growing...
...former Vice-President said President Johnson's extralegal pact with Vice-President Humphrey during Johnson's illness is "a good stop-gap, similar to my arrangement with President Eisenhower." However, he said it is "vitally important" for the states to ratify the 25th Amendment, which provides a permanent mechanism for Presidential succession...
...reasons for Pyongyang's shift are largely economic. To close the gap between North Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul...