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...bauxite deposits, extensive timberlands, and an excellent climate for rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy but also triggered a violent racial feud between...
Viet Nam is an obvious, perhaps overly simplistic excuse for a complex and chronic problem. Yet Europe's conservative bankers are sympathetic to the U.S.'s wartime payments plight. With the exception of the French, they have no current plans to cash in most of their greenbacks for U.S. gold, a move that would cause a run on the dollar. They keep pointing out, however, that the U.S. could and should do more to balance its books. Said Bundesbank President Karl Blessing last week: "The raising of the discount rate last December was a step in this direction...
...bestseller Mama's Bank Account, a warm reminiscence of Norwegian-American family life that turned out to be a motherly rival to Life with Father, as a 714-performance hit play, I Remember Mama, a popular movie, and a television series for seven seasons; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in San Francisco...
Acronyms Aweigh. As far as Congress was concerned, the most compelling argument for the anti-poverty program was that it could ultimately transform chronic "tax eaters," in Johnson's phrase, to new taxpayers. Even before it received congressional approval, Shriver had started gathering staffers and ideas. "How in the hell do you fight a war on poverty?" he asked everyone within earshot. "What do you do?" Laboring up to 16 hours a day, the anti-poverty warriors were shunted all over the capital, found themselves at one point in the basement morgue of an ancient hospital, at another...
...Maxfield Parrish, 95, Quaker-born dean of U.S. illustrators, whose diaphanous damsels, Homeric heroes, devilish dwarfs and capering clowns enlivened magazine covers (Collier's, Harper's Weekly), made dull books popular, and helped turn Jell-O and Fisk tires into bestsellers by virtue of their ads; of chronic lung disease; in Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought...