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...suburban Chicago last week, heavy rains drove black swarms of crickets from field and garden. Millions of the inch-long insects oozed over the streets and hopped into homes and office buildings. Restaurants closed in the face of the invasion; a few all-night filling stations kept their driveways clear by flushing the insects down the sewer with hoses...
Rules of the Game. EPU's billion-dollar monthly turnover resembles nothing so much as an all-night poker game. When the cards were dealt in 1950, every player had a tidy little stack of EPUnits (one unit equals $1), distributed according to size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote...
...took Bing Crosby a long time to get around to making his personal appearance on television but, once there, he settled down for a straight 14½ hours. Last week the aging (48) groaner co-starred with TV Veteran Bob Hope on an all-night show to raise the $500,000 still needed to send the U.S. Olympic team to this summer's games at Helsinki, Finland. Conceived by Sport Writer Vincent Flaherty of the Los Angeles Examiner, and obviously patterned after the annual Milton Berle TV marathon for the Cancer Fund, the Hope & Crosby show was a mixture...
...Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...
...prisoners under sentence of death by military courts for murder, pillage, rapine and other crimes incidental to guerrilla activities. Only seven of the sentences were carried out. The rest were postponed by an uncertain government to await more peaceful times. Last week they were postponed for good. In an all-night session that set some sort of a record for mass amnesty, the Greek Parliament commuted the death sentences of 2,076 political prisoners to life imprisonment...