Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again torture-the Algerian war's most harmful blemish on France's good name-made news. A year ago La Question, an account of French army torture in Algeria, sold 65,000 copies, stirred up a storm of public indignation before the government banned it. Last week Paris police seized another shocker. La Gangrène, 24 hours after it rolled off the presses. Even so, thay were too late again...
...arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast-put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said...
...book has enlarged the fantasy life of Americans more dramatically this season than an ex-telephone company engineer's do-it-yourself account of How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate-in My Spare Time. More than 100,000 readers have broken open this fortune cookie, and it is currently being snapped up at the rate of 10,000 copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of down-to-earth...
...Word for Man. Inuktitut's literary fare is beamed straight at igloos from Aklavik to Frobisher Bay: an account by Idlout, an Eskimo from Resolute Bay, of a visit to Greenland (he was charmed by the girls); a section on Eskimo haute couture (which made the telling point that the Eskimo will freeze in the white man's garb); even two blank pages -"something to write on" - for readers who live in an area where paper is a rare and treasured commodity...
Britain sent 10½% of all its exports to the U.S. in the first five months of this year, 37% above last year. The biggest British export to the U.S. is autos, which account for 25%. Other exports range from tractors (doubled in the first quarter) through textile machinery (nearly doubled) to plastics (trebled). The U.S. is now Britain's biggest market for sewing machines...