A CHARTERED Pan American jet aircraft landed without incident at the Lebanon [N.H.] Regional Airport yesterday morning," reported The Dartmouth. "Local gossip had it that had the plane crashed upon landing, the European economy would have collapsed." Hyperbole, of course, but there was some truth as well in the student newspaper's observation. On board the plane were 27 of Western Europe's top businessmen (see box), representing industrial enterprises with annual sales of more than $35 billion and financial institutions with assets of around $20 billion. They were the participants in TIME'S latest News...
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