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...pointed out that imports of competitive goods often spur American industry to turn out a better product. The automobile industry, for example, originally expected great losses to result from American imports of European models, "but now foreign manufacturers are afraid of what Detroit is doing in the small car field...
...develop and test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth of tablets, drops, sprays, gargles and unguents...
...Corporations will be entitled to a tax credit amounting to a flat 8% (4% for public utilities) of what they spend on plant modernization, a simplified version of the Administration's 1961 plan to spur capital spending...
...even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances of German reunification, also wants to show German voters that he has ideas of his own, and is not just following Adenauer's line. Said Mende: "There must be an answer [to the Soviet moves], because if there is not, it will sound bad in the universities...
...Raoul Salan married Lucienne Bougnin, 28, daughter of a Vichy hotel owner. A cool, tenacious blonde who is called Babiche (little doe) because of her large, soft eyes. Lucienne has never wavered in her loyalty to her husband, is thought to have shaped his ideas and been a spur to his ambition...