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Pound's Bust...
...pleased to see proper recognition of Gaudier-Brzeska in TIME [July 23]. I do not, however, own an estate in the Tyrol. The bust referred to is, for the present, at my son-in-law's there...
Feeding the Demagogues. Why do commodity prices boom and bust, gutting whole economies, while industrial prices glide up? The main reason is that commodity supplies are largely unpredictable, depend chiefly on the weather. International marketing agreements that could bring stability have been hard to negotiate and harder still to enforce. Castro upset the world sugar pact; the world coffee agreement is riddled with holes, and cocoa producers have repeatedly failed to agree on quotas and prices...
...TIME'S piece on fairs [July 16] misses an essential point. Knowing both Seattle's success and New York's bust, I would like to note that most Seattle construction was permanent, leaving a new civic-cultural center like those planned after the upcoming San Antonio and Miami fairs. Such planning achieves lasting results that would otherwise take a decade or more to achieve. This, not costly temporary borax like that at Moses' fair, is the likely future of world's fairs...
...sure he can. He is now collecting some affidavits on prison conditions from other ex-convicts and preparing further exposés. "We have opened up a chink in the curtain of secrecy surrounding our prisons," he wrote in an editorial last week. "We are now going ahead to bust it wide open...