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Three weeks later, just as perfunctorily, health officers at New York's Idlewild International Airport took the certificates at face value. They gave Missionary Orr a card on which was written: "As a precaution against introduction of smallpox: If you should develop suspicious symptoms of illness (such as chills...
Low-Level Productivity. Bundesbank President Karl Blessing says West Germany is catching "the English disease," by which he means allowing wages to outrun productivity, thus pricing goods out of foreign competition. But the unpopular "wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage...
But to most of the continent's other leaders, this latest extreme example of self-deification was simply confirmation of a growing suspicion that Accra today houses not Africa's greatest man. but merely Africa's biggest ego.
A continent away from Atlanta, the steel skeletons of San Diego's new skyscrapers stretch above the immaculate white city that curves back from the Pacific toward the Laguna Mountains. The yacht basins are crowded with boats; sumptuous motels for sybaritic tourists are rising outside town. But beneath the...
There, while keeping a tyrant's control of the parent paper, he founded the Paris Herald. Typically, the sheet was eccentric (for some reason, Bennett was amused by a letter written by an "old Philadelphia lady" who wanted to know how to change centigrade degrees to Fahrenheit; the letter...