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...leading Communists, notably Party Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. Thus after Jango advocated revision of the constitution last month, the Communist-run General Labor Command immediately obliged by threatening a general strike unless the reforms go through. A measure of the feeling on the other side came in Sao Paulo fortnight ago, when some 500,000 antileftists-largest rally ever assembled in Brazil-demonstrated their opposition to constitutional change...
...basic cause of all the excitement was the silver dollar. None have been minted since 1935, and the supply has been dwindling enough to bring a new sound to Las Vegas: in casino after casino the muted click of plastic chips has supplanted the tintinnabulation of traditional cartwheels. Last fortnight the House Appropriations Committee refused the Treasury permission to mint new silver dollars on the grounds that all its facilities should be devoted to stemming the growing shortage of small change being gobbled up by vending machines. This, plus the news that in delving into its dwindling supply of cartwheels...
...Fortnight ago, Ferrari came again to Sebring and the master's entourage, with condescending eyes, looked over this year's Shelby Cobra. "This won't be a contest - for sure," one Ferrari expert predicted on the eve of the race. "Shel by can't put all that power to the road. The more power he gives the cars, the worse they handle." When the grueling, twelve-hour ordeal had ended, the Italians were hardly singing Un Bel Di. Ferrari's electric-red cars were in the top three places overall - first this year as they...
...These 14 days," Lesinski boasted, "have seen more done to get Michigan ready for the future than any other 14 days in memory. During this time, the legislature has produced more legislation than any other fortnight in the state's history. The house passed 35 bills and the senate passed 33 bills. We have moved forward in all areas where we have stagnated for years...
...have achieved 86.3% of my program. I have cut our weekend traffic deaths in half to the lowest fatality record in 39 weeks. The reputation of Michigan has skyrocketed during the past fortnight. People are beginning to think of Michigan more favorably than ever before. Several threatened moves in the industrial community have been discarded because of business' new confidence in my administration. This has saved thousands of jobs for Michigan...