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...longtime ally, the U.S. An American businessman reported his upcountry customers asking: "If America is giving so much money to Thailand, why don't they make the government improve itself?" A resentful feeling that Thailand is bound too closely to the U.S. is also running high. A fortnight ago, as if in response to this complaint, the government announced the resumption of "normal trade relations" with Red China...
...avalanche of smaller debts was making it hard for him to hold the paper long enough to sell it. Six weeks ago, the City of Boston threatened to seize the Post's real estate if Fox did not pay up back taxes by mid-August. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service tied up the paper's bank account with a claim for $221,116 in unpaid withholding taxes from employees. Other creditors slapped other liens on the paper and its publisher, until he had to ask employees to wait several days extra for their weekly...
Andrew Sakacs, 43, had a pleasant Saturday outing a fortnight ago with his son and little grandson. He tramped through woods in sparsely settled Lockwood Valley in California's Ventura County, got in some target practice. Back in El Rio and getting undressed, he noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night...
...Fortnight ago, the dogged utility district tasted victory: the first Grant County bond issue was sold by a nationwide investment banking syndicate headed by Halsey, Stuart & Co. The transaction marked one of the biggest private investments ever made in hydroelectric power. Grant County's financing plan also was unusual: to help shoulder the costs, twelve public and private utility companies in three states have signed 50-year contracts for 63½% of Priest Rapids power output, guaranteed repayment of the debt...
...been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own planes, especially with the Lear automatic pilot, the Lear automatic direction finder and the Lear omnirange navigational system. Fortnight ago, in Hamburg, Bill Lear got an even better idea. Why not be the first postwar private flyer to go to Moscow and show off U.S. equipment...