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Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...
...this, his darkest political hour. President Eisenhower determined upon an all-out drive for a balanced budget. Only by maintaining a strong, healthy domestic economy, he said, could the U.S. maintain its world leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill...
Even before he graduated from Indiana University's law school, Halleck jumped into professional politics. In 1924 he ran for prosecuting attorney of Jasper and Newton counties, won-and has never since lost an election. He served four terms as prosecutor until, in one of the darkest of all Republican years, the chance came for advancement. In 1934, with the New Deal tide at its crest, the Congressman from Halleck's Second District died just nine days after the elections. Charlie Halleck went after the job, campaigned furiously, squeaked through by 5,000 votes...
...evocation of this atmosphere is the final triumph of the film. He has isolated a place which seems to belong at once to antiquity and to the modern world, and found it inhabited with people of all shades of passion and knowledge, from the clearest white to the darkest black. A tremendously serious movie, it is also full of wise and ridiculous humor. Surely there is no better sign than this of Dassin's success...
When his turn came at the microphone, Figueres recalled that "our group gave what modest aid it could to end tyranny in Cuba" (notably a planeload of arms to Castro in his darkest days). Figueres went on to say that "in Latin America we ignore a little the possibility of a great conflagration, of a third World War." He anxiously noted that in dealing with the U.S. "at times we speak in the language almost of warlike enemies." He confessed "worry" about Communist influence in Latin America and warned against siding with the Soviets in the cold war. At this...