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...major political parties. Competing actively for the "refugee vote," Christian Democrats and Socialists backed a unique 50% tax on all property that West Germans had managed to save through the war, in order to compensate refugees who had lost their possessions. A special Equalization of Burdens Bank granted thousands of low-credit business loans. Since virtually all were homeless, the East Germans were the chief beneficiaries of 6,500,000 new housing units built since...
JOSEPH C. CRESCIO, former captain of detectives, Massachusetts state police, who rounded up 18 bank robbers in 1950-51 Sc.D...
Midwest & Mountain States. As of now, Goldwater probably would get nearly all the convention votes of Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. "This guy," says Barry-Booster Frank Whetstone of Cut Bank, Mont., "can sell-and he can win." In California, former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Rockefeller man, admits Goldwater gains over Rockefeller in his state, but insists that Barry "couldn't possibly win." Nonetheless, California has a huge assortment of conservatives -from mild to Birch. They are well organized and gave Richard Nixon a tough fight in the gubernatorial primaries last year...
...Africa. There is no clear notion yet as to who will run the federation or how tight it will be, but a joint committee will spend the next two months drafting a program for joint economic planning, the establishment of common defense, foreign and diplomatic representation, and a central bank. Federation, said the three leaders, will create "a formidable force and a vast market...
Technology & Cotton Candy. Fly-ins are the gregarious side of private flying. A fly-in may be a bunch of well-heeled bank managers, admen, lawyers and the like, assembling for a weekend on Blakely Island, the de luxe air marina just off the northwest coast of Washington. It may be an informal handful of farmers and construction men setting down by a lakeside for a Sunday cookout. Or it may be a highly organized annual institution, with hundreds of planes zooming in for an elaborate program of exhibits and special events...