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Sensitive to their social responsibilities, many European business leaders are also working overtime on problems of housing, pollution, transport and boredom on the production line. They are eager to try fresh ideas and methods. Some of them even argue that Europe offers unique opportunities for the application of U.S. sales and management techniques-like franchising and discounting, decentralization of decision making and heavy use of marketing research -simply because those tactics have not yet been exploited much in Europe...
...German work permits in order to reconnoiter and perhaps even using embassy radio facilities to speed situation reports back to commando headquarters in the Middle East. The week before the Olympics started, several members of Black September set out for Munich, traveling separately and by various means of transport. They brought an arsenal of deadly Russian-built Kalashnikov submachine guns, pistols and hand grenades...
...only a considerable achievement-it is the first new rail transit system to be built in the U.S. in 65 years-but something of a challenge as well. BART was built as an attempt to entice San Francisco commuters out of their cars and onto a fast, smooth rail transport system that serves the entire Bay Area. Says Lawrence Dahms, BART'S assistant general manager for planning and public service: "The basic reason behind BART was not just to keep people from building more freeways but to change development policy. Since 1946, America has put its money in Detroit...
...demonstrated the scope of Delderfield's ambition. It was the first of a projected five volumes in which he planned to trace the rise and fall and rise again of the Swann family, starting with the founding of its transport business at the height of the 19th century Industrial Revolution and running down through the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969. The second, almost equally successful installment was last year's Theirs Was the Kingdom. Next fall will see the publication of Volume III, Give Us This Day, which Delderfield finished just before he died...
...sailing at only 20% occupancy. Italian Line officials figure that they may not make money on the students-food alone will cost up to $100 a head on each sailing -but that once introduced to the indulgent joys of sailing, young travelers will continue to choose nautical over aeronautical transport when they are older...