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...style drugstore to South Africa. He gradually bought up most of South Africa's "tearoom bioscopes" (combination cafe-movie theaters), then added a catering service to supply them. Catering led him into the hotel and restaurant business. When he died in 1949, he was involved in nearly every sector of the economy...
Secure Sentries. Objects that are only dimly visible to the eye glow with an almost painful brilliance on the electronic screen. On nights when even the stars are blacked out, the night eye can pick up meaningful glimmers. A sentry scanning his assigned sector could use the Bouwers telescope with perfect security; his snooperscope-equipped buddy would see over a much shorter range and would always be faced with the danger of discovery by an enemy fitted out with infrared detectors...
...central units are residential sectors of approximately 240 acres, designed to house 15,000 people. Each is an inward-looking, self-contained neighborhood, with its own business center. The city can be expanded almost indefinitely by adding new sectors; yet, growth will not lead to depersonalization, Le Corbusier believes, for each sector forms a coherent community...
...Lumbering low over Stone Age villages and thick jungles, troop-carrying helicopters swarmed across the wild central highlands of Viet Nam last week. On the ground, 10,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen and marines spread out over a vast, inhospitable sector south of Tamky where no government troops had set foot since 1938. In one of the biggest drives against the Communist Viet Cong since the guerrilla war broke out in 1959, South Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long...
Close Watch. Mafatlal has given something of a boost to "the public sector" by helping many schools and hospitals, setting up free meal canteens and a free girls' school and donating heavily to scientific and agricultural studies. But he concentrates his attention on his business, recruits bright young men from schools and colleges and trains them for top jobs in his empire. He watches expenses so closely that at the end of each day he summons his accountants into his presence and pores over their books. What Mafatlal sees has encouraged him in his plans to build...