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...nations they govern include the biggest in the hemisphere. Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, inheriting the Santa Claus economy built by Juan Perón, has fearlessly shot Santa Claus and put the nation to work. Brazil's Juscelino Kubitschek is daringly steering the fastest boom in Latin America, industrializing the country with printed money. Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo is bringing political peace in the wake of two dictatorships and moving toward a sound program of land reform. Chile's Jorge Alessandri is tackling one of the world's worst cases of inflation...
...passing the Rocket, Howe still acted like the most modest rookie on the club. But many an expert regards Howe as the world's finest hockey player. Square and solid (6 ft., 201 lbs.), Howe has a pair of thick, supple wrists that can snap one of the fastest shots in the game (120 m.p.h.). What is more, he is a deft playmaker who is so tough he often takes extra turns with Detroit's spare lines, so rugged a body checker that he sometimes substitutes for a defenseman and comes zooming up ice to give Detroit four...
Counting heavily on sharing in the boom, the auto industry last week raised its output to the fastest pace since the record year of 1955. It expected to turn out 176,655 units for the week, 21% of them compact cars. New-car sales for the first ten days in January were up 9% over last year...
Last week fashion houses wrote orders at the fastest clip since the era when the "New Look" dropped skirts more than a decade ago. Buyers were loading up because all signs point to a banner year, e.g., December business set records and January department-store sales are running 9% ahead of the year-ago rate. Some of the freest spenders in Manhattan came from cities that the steel-strike settlement helped most-Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Birmingham, Detroit. "The buyers have a lot of money, and they are spending it like mad," said Felix Lilienthal Jr., president of a company that...
...angels or by the slow processes of education. To try to ignore it as a small percentage of all advertising is to be insensitive to right and wrong. How can four different cigarettes all be lowest in nicotine, lowest in tars; how can three different headache remedies all work fastest...