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Huge Debts. The President's other big problem is an economy dragged downward by the Rojas regime's extravagance and the estimated $70 million sag in coffee income this year. The junta made a start by imposing what Colombian businessmen call "organized recession," including severe import restrictions on everything from toothpaste to typewriters. The cost of living is still climbing at a rate of 20% a year, and Lleras warns that if coffee prices are not stabilized, "this country may explode...
...keep his preaching schedule at five different churches in and around Hawley, Minn. In the winter and spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge, showed the same old-fashioned fortitude in the face of icy winds of another kind. With the U.S. economy slipping downward, panicky cries for drastic federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant to the President of the U.S. since the start of Ike's first term, counseled his boss to resist the pressures...
...blind. The X-14 has two Armstrong Siddeley jet engines that give more than 3,500 lbs. of thrust, their hot gas shooting out horizontally under the fuselage. When the X-14 is rigged to take off vertically, a system of vanes like a Venetian blind deflects the gas downward. The thrust, acting upward, lifts the craft off the ground...
...years. In 1932 Clifford Kenyon Shipton, a young Harvardman then teaching history at Brown, was hired to take over, has been at it ever since. At first he estimated that he could bring the biographies up to the class of 1800 in his lifetime, then revised his hopes downward to the classes of the Revolution. Now, at 55, he figures to hymn the sons of Harvard through 1765, the year of the Stamp Act. Progress so far: seven more volumes and part of the eighth, extending Sibley's sketches to the class...
...meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal 145 lbs. now weighed 580: I felt compressed, depressed. Even the light rubber ball of the pneumatic release for my camera shutter, held in my hand, seemed unbearably heavy. With the eyeballs tugged downward, with eyelids feeling like rusty iron curtains, it was an intense effort to peek "up" to keep watching the meters...