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...AMERICAN SOCIETY, founded in Salt Lake City, has as its guiding light one of the busiest speakers in the rightist movement: W. Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...Washington's busiest offices these days belongs to the Inter-American Development Bank, which has $1 billion capital, $450 million of it pledged by the U.S. In its first year of operation, the IDE has granted 40 loans totaling $139.5 million to 18 Latin American countries, and the money goes faster each week-17 loans worth $49.5 million in the month since Punta del Este. Last week the IDB approved $500,000 for economic planning in Colombia, a hefty $13 million for four irrigation projects in Mexico. So solid is the bank's program of loans for basic...
...novel come-on: 20 slot machines set up in the first-and cabin-class smoking rooms and the tourist lounge. All the way across the Atlantic, the "fruit machines" (as the Cunard Line labeled the one-armed bandits) did a brisk business. "The slot-machine area was the busiest place on the boat, busier even than the bar," reported Passenger Stanton Griffis, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Poland. "You couldn't fight your way to them...
Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
...year by 1965, may well hit that total this year, helped by a surprising spurt in scrap-metal exports. Ports in Canada are also doing handsomely, partly because railways there are not slashing rates selectively to buck the Seaway as U.S. railroads are doing. Hamilton, Ont., now the busiest port on the lakes, increased its traffic by 600,000 tons last year. Montreal went up 300,000 tons, Toronto...