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...most of all by work. He worked in the White House and he worked at the ranch. On the Hill and astride the stump. In his limousine (with four separate communication setups) and aboard the jet (with $2,000,000 in electronic gear). By letter, wire, scrambler and hot line. In the bath and in the bedroom, at every meal and over every drink...
Though started in 1958 as a small private organization, Britain's Voluntary Service Overseas went into high gear after the Peace Corps came along, now gets matching funds from the government and counts 700 workers in the field, mostly in Commonwealth countries and European refugee camps. Three developing countries-El Salvador, Kenya and Zambia-have started domestic Peace Corps to work within their own borders. Nine other countries are planning overseas or domestic Peace Corps-style organizations: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and even tiny Liechtenstein...
Spaakistan. From the headlines, the dream of a united Continent seemed more illusory than ever. In fact, it looked last week as if Europe's long-stalled political machinery was in gear again. For one thing, the Labor victory in England has persuaded pro-British Europeans that there is no longer much point in holding out for British membership in the Common Market before discussing political integration...
Houses & Horses. This year Government and business will spend a record $2 billion for electronic data-processing gear, ranging from $90,000 small computers to $5,500,000 machines capable of 2,500,000 calculations a second. So broad is the variety of computer users that there are more than 1,000 programming "languages"; last week RCA Chairman David Sarnoff urged that the scientists put their minds to devising a standard system to replace the "technological Tower of Babel." That will be difficult if only because computer technology is changing so rapidly. Most important, computers are being brought into...
...estimated 6,500,000 this year-but they have cut their average stay from six days to only three, and spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their own gear. At the same time, "Le Boom" enabled 10 million Frenchmen to travel abroad, almost half of them to Spain. Result: France's foreign-exchange surplus from tourism dropped from $200 million in 1962 to about $80 million this year...