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Bolivia's President Siles once went on a hunger strike to fend off pressures to break his austerity pledge. Said he: "I will never sign a decree assisting inflation." Instead, he forced through a law prohibiting issuance of new currency by the Central Bank. Today, Bolivia seems on the way to sound money...
...After trying unsuccessfully for months to break the world's water speed record in the U.S., Donald Campbell took his big, jet-powered bug back to Britain, dunked it in Lancashire's Lake Coniston and screamed to a new mark: 239.07 m.p.h., more than 13 m.p.h. better than...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 14--The United Nations called today for new talks to break the disarmament deadlock despite the Soviet Union's announcement it will refuse to take part in them...
Last week, as it celebrated its tenth anniversary, WDIA changed hands for $1,000,000. The thumping price, biggest ever paid for a Negro station, pointed up the findings of a study just released by the Radio Advertising Bureau: "The Negro market can make-or break-the sales programs of even the biggest advertisers. These 17.3 million customers are growing in power and influence . . . faster than the U.S. average." Though Negro stations were unheard-of ten years ago, they prosper today in every sizable city in the South, and in big cities up North...
...daughter is an all-tied-up-in-knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect. All the time, amid such a fracturing of lives, people sit about, exhibiting the farcical side of family life...