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...years' fighting, and recently stepped-up campaigns have resulted in mass surrender of rebels. Citizens may now travel, safe from guerrilla raids, in all but the most mountainous parts of the country. Strapped for foreign exchange as a result of a slump in rice exports and now-regretted barter deals with Communist countries, Burma has lately made some gains with its economic expansion program, though it still suffers direly from severe inflation (a 200% increase in the cost of living since...
...lead and zinc states as Idaho and Utah operated at top capacity, and the U.S. encouraged foreign producers by buying every ton they could deliver. Prices and production fluttered after the war. In 1953 the market sagged, but was quickly buoyed up by a U.S. grain-for-metals barter program and stockpiling. But this year, with enough lead and zinc stored up to last an estimated three years, the U.S. eased off on stockpiling. Prices tumbled from 16? to 13½? a Ib. for lead, from 13½? t010? a Ib. for zinc. Marginal mines in the U.S. began closing...
Nobody can tell for sure what it is or why, but the yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts...
...premium. Now, with a new cotton crop heading for market, Cairo is at the mercy of its new customers. At one time recently, only two Cabinet officers were left in Cairo; the rest were out scurrying from The Hague to Peking in hopes of peddling cotton for whatever barter terms the Communists or anyone else might give...
President Eisenhower was more than willing to listen to their arguments. But he made it clear in advance that he would not barter away his authority, under the Constitution and statutes of the U.S., to put down mob rule wherever it arose...