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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grilled Barbecuers. That barbecue was held on Nov. 14, 1957 on the secluded, 53-acre estate of one Joseph Barbara, 53, ostensibly a soft-drink bottler, at Apalachin (pronounced Apple-achin') in upstate New York. A state cop stumbled onto it almost by accident: he noticed droves of big black Cadillacs and Imperials pouring into town from all directions, traced them to the place where they converged, and barged in on 60 of the most senior statesmen in U.S. organized crime. On sight of a uniform, the hoods fled through the woods like so many Br'er Rabbits...
...about "the Finance Minister. Last week the committee broke into applause as Finance Minister Antoine Pinay finished his report. He had good news: France is economically healthier than it has been in three decades. Spurred by last December's 17.5% devaluation of the franc, exports are now almost high enough to match imports, producing a tidy surplus in the balance of payments. Industrial production is on the way up again. The government has cut its heavy budget deficit (caused largely by the Algerian war) to half the 1,200 billion francs predicted earlier. The government had expected prices...
...Africa." cried the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, his mournful face almost aglow, "a number of nations have gained their freedom or are on the road to freedom, and this desire is also present amongst the Bantu people of the Union." He was speaking last week in behalf of a bill-"a God-given task"-that would ostensibly grant that freedom to the Bantus by setting up what will eventually become eight separate black states, which presumably would gradually become more and more nearly self-governing. The Prime Minister himself compared the arrangement to the British Commonwealth of independent...
France's dressmakers almost burst their seams with envy at the news that the Paris fashion house founded by the late Christian Dior will haul its entire summer collection to Moscow early in June. The House of Dior, in a cultural exposition unparalleled since the days of the czars, will be presented to Soviet bigwigs and Moscow's diplomatic corps, then move into a big public hall, play to proletarians (admission: $3 top) for six days. Asked by a Dior representative if the group could bring along the normal retinue of aides, hairdressers and some 120 models...
...fact that year after year the CRIMSON is in error on almost all its predictions does not dampen the enthusiasm which attends this yellow journalistic ritual, and again this year other members of the Harvard community may try to pin the tail on the donkey. The CRIMSON will once more hold its oft-acclaimed Name the Honoraries Contest, and this spring the prize will be a slightly used copy of the CRIMSON Telephone Directory--brought up to date by numerous corrections...