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...unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count the trip a success on both scores...
...Coming a Cropper? The snowballing revolt has already proved economically crippling. One-fourth of the population of Luanda, Angola's capital city, is unemployed, as are some 16,000 refugees who have streamed into Luanda from the ravaged north. Portugal's $20 million loan to Angola for development is being used to finance the garrisons; there is no foreign investment coming into Angola and no development capital available. Worst of all, next month Angola's $55 million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop...
...Preisinger, owner of the second largest hotel in town, who played the part in 1950 and was much praised for his combination of gentleness and physical endurance during 85 eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg. a 21-year-old salesgirl. Anneliese Mayr, 20. landed the part...
...saddle than any government the Chinese people have known for two centuries past. Yet the undertones of uneasiness occasionally audible in the proceedings of the National People's Congress carried with them the possibility that in some circumstances unforeseeable now the whole thing could come a cropper: a desperate people, overworked, underfed, a trivial incident of defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction. No one saw such prospects now. Yet better than anyone else...
Minute Maid, which had grown fast since its founding in 1945, got into trouble when it bought out Snow Crop in 1954 to diversify into other frozen fruits and vegetables. Last year Snow Crop came a cropper; a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables depressed prices while competition cut profit margins. Minute Maid ran into further trouble in its own orange processing, where costs increased while retail prices slid. Though 1957 sales were $103 million, the company reported a pre-tax loss of $5,000,000. When a December freeze hit Florida's citrus crop, Wall Street assumed...