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...factories busy. After months of nervously watching the spectacle, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his financial agents were alarmed when January's figures showed that Britain's trade gap had widened to the largest ($460 million) in history. Last week the government took action to dampen Britain's spending spree by raising interest rates from...
Golden Sea. At last week's press conference at the Elysee Palace, le grand Charles seemed intent on proving that he could dampen fires as well as ignite them. More than 1,000 newsmen, diplomats and officials were perched anxiously on a sea of spindly gold chairs when at the stroke of 3 p.m. the raspberry-red curtains parted and De Gaulle lumbered to the podium, wearing a sober charcoal-grey suit and a dark striped tie. He gave the familiar wave to the crowd, heard the same gaggle of questions-some planted and some not-and then exercised...
...year-old brownstone and seems to feel that things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't snore the night away in his own bed without being afraid of waking the neighbors, suggested that both consult their landlord about what might be done to dampen the high fidelity of the Sheir snoring, and that everybody show up in court again next month...
...shadows could dampen the new mood of optimism about Curtis' future. At a press conference after the stockholders' meeting, Banker Semenenko hinted at Curtis plans to expand into book publishing, television broadcasting, and perhaps in other directions. "It will be advantageous," he said, "for Curtis to acquire such companies." Nor did he rule out the possibility that other companies might find it equally advantageous to buy into Curtis. "Many companies will want to merge with Curtis," said Semenenko. "Many have already made overtures...
...arrived in Norway on a barnstorming jaunt through Scandinavia, but the 25,000 fans who paid their way in to watch him spar made Listen sunny. Even the news that his proposed fight this week with showy but second-rate German Heavyweight Uli Ritter was off could not dampen his spirits. He hied himself to a Swedish bastu (steam bath) and had himself steamed and scourged with branches until he was his jovially ferocious self again...