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That was not good enough for the Turkish Cabinet. It rejected the Greek reply as "unsatisfactory" and gave the Turkish military the signal to speed up preparations. Antiaircraft batteries suddenly appeared around Ankara, and troops in full battle dress lugged their gear aboard a 37-ship invasion fleet that assembled in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderon, only 40 miles from Cyprus. Greece's alarmed government and military leaders gathered at King Constantine's Tatoi Palace near Athens to draft a final appeal to Turkey...
...ranging (more than 5,000 miles) ship that resembles Britain's Vickers VC-10, the 186-passenger plane now rivals the best in Western commercial aircraft. To meet U.S. navigational requirements, it has been rigged out with RCA antennas and other American-made avionics gear. And to judge from last week's proving flight, at least, its lissome Russian stewardesses seem ordered to U.S. specifications as well. In fact, about the only fault that Federal Aviation Agency officials could find was that the Russian crew's command of English-the official international airways language-was something less...
...went on location at the Marksburg Castle near Koblenz, Germany. The scene, which required three days of near round-the-clock filming, shows an angry mob of villagers storming the castle, battering down the doors, and chasing a mad scientist and seven assorted monsters who hurriedly gather their gear and escape in a Volkswagen station wagon. The only dialogue is an announcer's voiceover: "If you've created a rather large family and you have an awful lot to carry, chances are a normal station wagon won't be large enough. Maybe you ought to consider something...
...Harold Wilson on little else, Chambers shares the belief that Britain needs the Common Market, and he has moved to assure I.C.I.'s place in Europe no matter what happens politically. I.C.I, has bought into smaller European chemical firms, constructed plants in The Netherlands and West Germany. To gear itself to foreign competition, it is now in the final phase of a four-year, $1.7 billion capitalization program. It was partly because of that outlay that pre-tax profits dropped steadily over the past three years, to $242 million in 1966. Whatever happens, I.C.I, now does more business abroad...
Bigger & Faster. Fiat, says Chairman Gianni Agnelli, owes its success to "a policy of production most suitable to the situation." What he means is that when the Italian economy was in low gear, Fiat built small cars-robust, versatile, economic. But since its 1964 slump, the economy has been picking up speed, and now Fiat is too. Its cars are getting bigger and faster. Tiny, 500 cc. to 600 cc. "Mickey Mouse" models are giving way to huskier, 1,000 cc. to 1,500 cc. sedans that now account for 34% of production. And demand for the bigger, more powerful...