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...know what the Soviets are doing inside their vast ocean of land, [but] it does not follow that the H-bomb is particularly favorable to them. Their enormous . . . territory, which seemed to limit the atom bomb ... is no longer likely to give the same immunity to the far wider effects of the hydrogen bomb and the clouds of radioactive dust and vapors to which it gives rise...
...seemed very small-scale, but the row in the enclaves had wider implications. The French have little practical use for the enclaves-they bring in no revenue and will cost $3,420,000 to run this year. But the French, who say they agree in principle to a referendum, do not want to grant these people easy freedom of choice for fear that this would encourage nationalists in North Africa to step up their own pressure for independence. For Nehru, on the other hand, the enclaves are a galling reminder that colonialism has not yet been pushed entirely...
...interested at the moment in signing new trade agreements. The only bargain he proposed in Santiago provided for the restoration of the Bayer and Merck drug properties, seized in World War II. But Erhard had bigger matters in mind. West Germany's continued progress, he said, requires wider foreign business, and Latin America, rich in raw materials and poor in machinery and manufactured goods, is the place for German trade to grow. "We regard Latin America as the continent of the future," he said. "Here opportunity lies waiting for us around every corner . , " We have decided to build...
...started, McCraken's upstart Eagle bought its entrenched competitor, the 60-year-old Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, and moved from its own grubby offices into the Tribune's modern plant. Later he repeated the same trick with other papers he took over, pepped them up with wider wire-service coverage, broadened local-news coverage for such successful small papers as the Rock Springs Rocket (circ. 5,935), Sunday Miner (5,900) and Laramie Bulletin...
Economists agreed that both British moves would not only help bring convertibility of sterling closer, but encourage wider trade throughout the world...