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...funds for the party. But "Draft Goldwater" committees are sprouting like winter wheat, should be established in every state by mid-October. Some states already have Goldwater groups clear down to the precinct level, waiting only until Barry formally announces his candidacy-probably in January-to move into high gear...
...this was a real grudge match. Ever since World War II, U.S. big-car racing has worn a "members only" sign, dominated by a tight knot of drivers piloting burly 400-h.p. Offenhauser roadsters. But this year the "sports-car crowd"-the road racers and gear shifters-was trying to muscle in with dinky, British-built Lotuses using 375-h.p. Ford V-8 engines...
...English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...
...Keep Up? Some small manufacturers seek to survive and prosper by diversifying. In Detroit, United Platers has begun to retail its own line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit...
...week for talks with Ayub, he will make clear U.S. concern over Pakistan's dalliance with Red China. Among other things, Ball will object to American-made jets' flying into Communist China and the possibility of the Pakistan Airlines' stocking U.S.-made spare parts and maintenance gear in Shanghai and Canton. Until Pakistan demonstrates its "good faith" to Washington by finding a way out of the air agreement, the U.S. will withhold a $4,300,000 loan to modernize Dacca airport. In his own way, Troubleshooter Ball will have to rephrase the warning of a Western diplomat...