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...military and diplomatic developments spurt and twist, no one can predict the outcome with any certainty. As Neff puts it, the only real constant in Viet Nam is the ever present element of surprise. Therefore, he says, "I no longer bother saying that I'll never be back...
Japanese companies' investments in overseas factories, mines, bank branches and the like now are only $3.6 billion but are rising rapidly. Leaders of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) predict that by 1980 the total may reach $26 billion. In the U.S., the Japanese are investing in everything from noodle making to home building. A partial list: Sony is building a $1,000,000 color-TV plant in San Diego, and Nisshin Food Products Co. has put up a noodle factory in Gardena, Calif. Matsushita Electric is about to begin producing color-TV sets in Puerto Rico...
...film, they will not include any immediate competition from the company's chief rival in the amateur camera market, Eastman Kodak Co. Although Kodak is making "solid progress toward an in-camera processing system of our own," according to President Gerald B. Zornow, company officials declined to predict when it might be available. Kodak's entry into the pocket-photography race-the recently introduced Pocket Instamatic (TIME, March 27)-is much further along. Zornow reports that orders placed by camera dealers have "all but erased substantial inventories in new pocket products...
...again-off again Harvard golf team will try to pull things together this afternoon when it faces Cornell in Ithaca, New York. The Crimson, 6-4 on the year, should have no problem with the Big Red if they have a good day, something that has been difficult to predict this season...
...other issue; the letters insistently call for higher benefits. Particularly, in a political campaign year, politicians of both parties are eager to boost the income of the 27 million Social Security recipients, most of whom are 65 or over and most of whom will vote. No one can yet predict how big the new benefits will be, but at least a dozen proposals to expand Social Security payments are now being mulled over by the Senate Finance Committee...