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...Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...
...fear explosions of discontent even more. Now & then, a rumor that favelados are about to descend from the hill in plundering hordes puts fear into carioca hearts. Such rumors floated about during last month's carnival celebrations, souring some of the city's gaiety with a vague dread...
...cannot predict the future with assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future...
...revived sentiment for an income tax. It was strictly and frankly a soak-the-rich measure. In 1893, a St. Louis editor urged William Jennings Bryan to lead a crusade for a graded tax of 5% or 10% on incomes over $10,000. "There is nothing those Eastern plutocrats dread so much as that...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...