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...Mutual Economic Assistance) into a Redhued EEC-only COMECON, of course, was to be much better. There would be no wasteful competition among nations, for example, as in the free-market EEC; instead, each member would be assigned to produce what it could make best. But to Soviet chagrin, some of the satellites are proving as balky as De Gaulle about shaping themselves to the mold...
...confession checked out in Portsmouth, Loughan was charged with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case...
Investment Banker Albert E. Schwabacher Jr. viewed with amusement and chagrin the feminine attitude toward high finance: "Women approach stocks and bonds in a personal way. To buy stock in a company is like a vote of approval, having nothing, or very little, to do with earning capacity. Similarly, to sell a stock is an act of contempt." This is why widows are often reluctant to sell stock that their husbands purchased. "It is not that they develop a sudden respect for his judgment-a respect never manifest in his lifetime. It is that they liked him in spite...
...poor little rich boy's Candide: Lance Weatherwax' adventures in that supposedly best of all possible worlds, the realm of dedicated acolytes of the arts. Lance (Larry Hagman), who is as handsome and unworldly as Rice Krispies and inherited millions can make him, finds, to his chagrin, that artists cannot wait to sell their souls to him or any other handy Mammon. This is scarcely fresh news and only fitfully amusing...
...Adenauer's troubles were far from over. Though Strauss was out of the way, the political repercussions over Publisher Augstein's arrest now had blossomed into what newspapers were calling a "Chancellor crisis." To der Alte's chagrin, even his own C.D.U. colleagues had begun to raise the leadership issue. Everyone, it seemed, felt it was about time for Adenauer to step down. In a heated meeting, they asked him insistently to declare his intention to resign by next fall, so that the party might groom a successor in time for the 1965 general elections. Adenauer...