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...investors, who still see a ripe market, will increase their capital spending in Europe's community by 8% to $880 million this year, the U S. Commerce Department estimated last week. But partly because they have pumped in so much already and partly because the Common Market is reaching more maturity, U.S. businessmen next year are expected to cut their investment rate by about...
...President Kennedy signed the test ban treaty, handed around 16 souvenir pens to Senators and Administration officials who were in the White House for the occasion. In response, Russia's Premier Khrushchev sent out messages of congratulation saying that the treaty opened the way to solution of "other ripe international issues...
...author of a prizewinning travel book, An American in Italy, has come home to write a satire about America. So much contact with Roman antiquities has convinced Herbert Kubly that America is also ripe for a fall. The yahoos have taken over, free speech is stifled, the kids are sex-mad. It is an "informers' land," says one character who is supposed to speak the plain, unvarnished truth. "We're a species of children, rather nasty children, tattling on one another, playing with our toys of microphones and wire taps...
Even Khrushchev once sneered, "The workers' councils are very good when they are propped up by American grain and meat." Reversing himself, Khrushchev called the councils a "progressive development" and said Russia was facing the question of "whether or not conditions are ripe for the democratization of management. Unless there is a force of public opinion our managers tend to become autocrats. Of course, your system may not be totally in line with the Leninist principle of unified leadership...
...said to be "the world's youngest octogenarian." With his wigwagging ginger eyebrows, gaitered waddle and "rah-ther"-studded speech, Ramsey is a ripe continuation of England's tradition of clerical eccentrics. He is the type of man who finds mud puddles appearing mysteriously in his path; his bulky purple cassock always seems ever so slightly askew. No one laughs. For warmhearted, avuncular Archbishop Ramsey also exudes the wisdom of a scholar and a deep-rooted faith, and seems every inch what he is in fact if not in name: patriarch of his arm of Christendom...