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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking is actually anxious to get rid of most of the refugees. The Communists readily grant exit permits to those who are burdens on the regime-the old and the unproductive, women without jobs and tuberculous children. Others who want to escape buy their way out, paying cash-hungry Communist cadres up to $2,275 for a permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable...
Universe of 1962, was on her way around the world, earning her $15,000 cash prize and $7,000 mink coat by promoting the sponsors' products. The itinerary calls for stops from Portugal to Korea. But right now it was a Detroit shopping center where she turned her perfect profile to photographers, fixed her pretty smile firmly in place, and cranked out her autograph for coveys of bedazzled teenagers...
Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...
...years scientists had been certain that the human species had 48. Touched off by the revolutionary Tjio-Levan discovery, six hectic years of work on chromosomal abnormalities have already revealed clear links with some physical and mental disorders. Dr. Tjio got a personal award of $8,333 but no cash for his research, because the U.S. Government is already financing...
...Float stems from Amexco's estimated $2 billion-a-year sales of its famed blue traveler's checks. The average traveler's check is not cashed until almost three months after it is bought. As a result, Amexco has a continuous pool of cash-now amounting to about $400 million-on which it pays no interest and earns around 3% yearly. "Central banks apart," remarked London's Financial Times recently, "there is probably no other financial institution in the world that manages to obtain a supply of 'free money' on this kind of scale...