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Garant gets around all this. Managed by a troika of Soviet citizens headed by Sergei Karpovich, 40, the company handles just about everything from automobile to aviation insurance, but its big business is insurance for exporters dealing with the Communists (including Red China). Luring Western businessmen with premiums as low as 0.1%-"completely unrealistic," complains one Western insurer-it pulls in trade by writing policies for almost every conceivable business risk. "What success do you suppose we'd have," asks one West German insurer, "in bringing action against a Communist state railway for negligence?" Garant has won a reputation...
Crucial Decision. In a business increasingly dominated by global giants, engineering success alone sold too few cars. Six years ago the company made the crucial decision to restyle; the responsibility for developing the new model fell to Wilks, who shares Rover's executive troika with Chairman Lovedin G.T. Farmer, 55, and Managing Director William F. Martin-Hurst...
...sugar a day and some day their teeth will fall out, but meanwhile they have been so well trained by Valentin Filatov that they are the essential stars of the Soviet circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along...
...held in 1956, but Diem repudiated this with the argument that any election in the Communist North would be rigged. The conference set up an International Control Commission of India, Poland and Canada to investigate all border violations and arbitrate all treaty disagreements; but the I.C.C.'s troika arrangement stymied whatever effectiveness...
Even as the troika-like International Control Commission of India, Poland, and Canada, which was set up to police Laotian neutrality, tried to restore the peace, it lost one of its three heads. Communist Poland recalled its ICC representative to Warsaw in the wake of vigorous U.S. protests that the Pole's "obstructionist tactics" and deliberate boycott of ICC field observation work were sabotaging efforts to maintain a cease-fire between the Neutralists and the Pathet...