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...bert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be a bust if we don't crucify somebody. To those people, it is a bust already...
Some of the products of charlatans have an ancient history. A turn-of-the-century fashion in ample bosoms produced "Bust-O-Fill"; the current bosom-conscious fad has resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect on the development or structure of the female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from...
...tipsters. Privately, the bankers contribute to the profitable buying fever. They commonly margin buyers at 30% to 40% or even less (the rigid U.S. margin rate: 90%). Their standard excuse for such easy terms is that all but a few listed European companies are so solidly rooted that a bust is unthinkable...
...close look at the man whom Berliners hail as a worthy successor to the late, great Mayor Ernst Reuter (whose bust appears behind Brandt in this week's cover picture), TIME called on John Mecklin, chief of the Bonn bureau, and Correspondent
...hostile Patagonia hides riches that can make the difference between boom and bust for Argentina's dollar-short wheat-beef economy. With a new "Operation Patagonia" and with massive infusions of foreign capital, President Arturo Frondizi has high hopes of unlocking the treasure house. He has already kicked off Operation Patagonia with a series of projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit...