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...Nehru's reasoning, the rioting Vidarbhans should have been overjoyed at being included in Maharashtra, since they speak the Marathi tongue. But Vidarbhans had another grievance. They have a thriving cotton and textile economy, fear they will be exploited in taxation and neglected in appropriations unless they can have their own state, separate from both Maharashtra and Gujarat...
...eyes of the new generation of democrats come to power in the hemisphere in recent years, Nicaragua remains a sleepy dictatorship run chiefly to protect the estimated $60 million fortune (in sugar, coffee, shipping, cotton) that Tacho corruptly amassed while in power. To Nicaraguans, uncritically chummy Tom Whelan will always be identified with the Somozas and all their works...
Although he has a sizable cut of Presley's estimated $2,000,000 a year income, Parker still clings to his carny ways. Once when Elvis appeared at Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Hollywood friends found Manager Parker near the main gate, selling Presley-autographed photos. His explanation: "Don't you ever get so big you won't sell pictures." He has sold other things, too, at Presley performances. Bucking custom, he makes newsmen pay for their own tickets, seldom passes out freebees even to close business associates, has been known to peddle war-surplus binoculars...
...sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that in Alma Alta the director of a state livestock farm had placed a large roll of absorbent cotton on the back seat of his car, and declared that it was a Mobile Veterinary Laboratory. The Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences had not yet handed over a single one of the dozens of cars it was using. When the reporter demanded why the state prosecutor's office had not taken...
Checking the Flow. The big reasons for the U.S.'s bigger trade balance are: 1) a reduction in steel imports following the end of the strike, 2) a slowdown in foreign auto imports, and 3) a pickup in exports of autos, trucks, machinery, aluminum, raw cotton and other commodities. The growing success of the campaign to export more was reflected by a big drop in the outflow of gold from the U.S. in the first quarter. In the first quarter last year, the U.S. lost $92 million in gold. Last week the Treasury reported that in the first quarter...