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...piece "wraparound" windshields. Cadillac, which is boosting its horsepower from 210 to 225, will offer sports models with some of the features of G.M.'s futuristic, experimental models displayed this year (wire wheels, cutaway fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest step of all by adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models. Chevrolet and Pontiac have kept their new looks top secret, but production of the Chevrolet...
...Federal Reserve Board official once wryly remarked: "Only a handful of men really understand the credit system." Nevertheless, it is in the field of credit that the Eisenhower Administration has made its swiftest and boldest decisions...
...Gasperi threw them out (1947) in one of the boldest, most important decisions of the cold war. A few months later he met them over the ballot boxes-an enemy more ruthless, more disciplined, better organized than his own wobbly coalition. While many Italians with faint hearts and fat pocketbooks began planning flight from the country, De Gasperi and his allies licked the enemy-fair, square and decisively. "He has done this thing," the U.S. diplomat says, "and because he has done it successfully, it looks easy. But if he hadn't done it, Italy would have gone Communist...
...juts into the westward bulge of Africa, north of the coast that was once called the "White Man's Grave." Seven out of ten are illiterate, more than half believe in witchcraft, yet the happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last year they designated as Prime Minister a histrionic radical who had once openly flirted with Communism: Kwame ("Show Boy") Nkrumah. Today, in the Gold Coast cabinet, only three of eleven members...
...three-year-old civil war is still dragging on. Ruling by decree, the Conservative government keeps a strong grip on the cities, but in the countryside, hardy Liberal partisans ("bandits" in the official communiques) wage constant guerrilla war against government outposts. Last week, in one of their boldest strikes yet, "bandidos" made a 3 a.m. New Year's Day raid on the important Palanquero air force base, 75 miles northwest of the capital...