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...Malcolm Little. He was caught pimping on the side and fired. He thereupon turned himself into a full-time hustler whose specialties were fixing up white men with Negro whores and Negro men with white whores. He peddled marijuana, became a cocaine addict and, to satisfy his $20-a-day craving, took to burglary. In 1946 he wound up with a ten-year prison sentence in Boston...
...Governor pointed out that the problem was not financial weakness but only a shortage of Hong Kong's local paper currency. To stem the run, the government ordered 5,000,000 British ? 1 notes flown from the Bank of England by chartered jet, imposed a temporary $17.50-a-day limit on cash withdrawals. With another ? 35 million in bank notes scheduled to be flown from London soon, the run subsided by week's end. To dramatize its solvency and calm its customers, one Chinese bank used psychology: it piled a hoard of gold bars on the counter...
...Mimi, after her husband's death, boarded Nazis during the Occupation, keeping the Allies posted on their travels. Last week Charles Ritz, 72, now Chairman of Paris' Ritz, flew to Manhattan to check into the strategies of Europe's latter-day invaders. He sampled a $90-a-day suite at the New York Hilton, ran his finger over the moldings, ordered snacks in from room service (usually in the wee hours), and emerged from his experiment reassured. "The Hilton is good in its field," he said kindly, "but the clientele just does not demand the same thing...
...teachers, and have no target date for all our 225 elementary schools." Now 78 of Detroit's schools teach new math in Grades 4, 5 and 6. Of the 3,500 teachers in the system, 700 have attended new-math seminars and courses on Saturdays, encouraged by $15-a-day payments. Aggravating the shortage of new-math teachers is the fact that not enough new-math courses are offered at universities and teachers colleges...
...just one of those things that Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets will have to learn to live with. In point of fact, they live rather well-thanks to Big Daddy Creole Petroleum Corp., for which Papacito Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, works as a $10-a-day oilfield hand. Creole built for the family a $30,000 five-bedroom house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto...