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Three chaotic years after intervening in the Congo, the U.N. military forces last week were packing up to leave. Under orders from Secretary General U Thant, the remaining 5,077 combat troops (already pared sharply from a peak of 19,000 since the final crushing of Katanga last January) are scheduled for departure by Dec. 31. The planned pull-out represents a victory for such intransigent opponents of the U.N. Congo operation as Russia and France. Chiefly because of the holdouts' refusal to help share the costs, the U.N. is $140 million in debt, and Thant...
...biggest industrialists in East Africa are neither black natives nor British settlers but four enterprising Indians-the Madhvani brothers-who run 18 companies worth $30 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. They stand at the peak of a bulging settlement of clever, clannish Indians, who came to work on the railroads at the turn of the century and stayed to do well in commerce. Unlike most of the clan, now fearful of the future under independent African rule and sending their savings abroad, the young Madhvanis are determined to remain and are vigorously expanding to prove it. Says the senior...
...took a lot of huffing and puffing, as well as some slipping and sliding, but last week the stock market reached the peak it set 21 months ago, and then climbed to an alltime high...
...Guest Artist Pat Suzuki-and inspected the 1964 models that Chrysler had providentially brought along (see U.S. BUSINESS). When the San Francisco revels ended, more were in store: shooting, riding, and fishing on a Utah dude ranch (Studebaker); a wild drive in new Galaxies up Colorado's Pikes Peak (Ford); swimming at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva (American Motors)-to mention just a few of the bashes on the schedule...
Hundreds of huge, two-trailered trucks chugged last week along the roads of Southern California, where from now until November they will shuttle constantly between ripened fields of tomatoes and bustling canneries. By season's peak, an awesome Niagara of tomatoes amounting to about 80 million lbs. weekly will be picked, stemmed, stewed and squashed, processed into juice, sauces, catsup and paste. What ever the style, most of them will bear the bright red label of Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., the world's largest packer and distributor of tomato products and the corporate creation of a remarkable...