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...Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
...years to pay." In Seattle, a Plymouth dealer advertised on the radio: "If your car, no matter how old, can be driven to pur office, we'll give you $450 trade-in for it." In Chicago, the'price war had become so fierce that many were selling brand-new cars at used-car prices. One Hudson dealer, in addition to his own line, was offering new Pontiacs, Buicks, Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles and Plymouths below list price...
...Prime Minister of the brand-new federation of British Central Africa...
...been forced to cut down to six issues a year, is still constantly casting about for angels. Since they traditionally operate in the red, only the little magazines backed by universities, well-heeled nonprofit organizations or foundations have any security. This week in London, 10,000 copies of a brand-new little magazine rolled off the presses, and it not only has the backing of an organization but is also a highbrow magazine whose roots are transatlantic. The magazine: Encounter, an 80-page international monthly ($5 a year), backed by the world-wide Congress for Cultural Freedom, whose headquarters...
...last president of Harvard to take part in an exercise of the Harvard Divinity School was crusty Unitarian Charles William Eliot, in 1909. For this week's convocation of the Divinity School, Harvard's brand-new president, Episcopalian Nathan M. Pusey (TIME, June 8), composed a speech that would surely have made the muttonchops of the father of the Five-Foot Shelf bristle with shocked surprise...