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Fearing that the nation's current economic boom is turning into dangerous inflation, the Swiss government drafted a series of tough measures to prevent that. It froze at the present level the number of jobs that can be held by foreigners in Switzerland and ordered that foreign deposits in Swiss banks may no longer be invested in the Swiss economy (though banks will still accept foreign deposits in customary secrecy). The government also put a one-year moratorium on the construction of "unnecessary" buildings (luxury homes or apartments, theaters) and curtailed funds for "necessary" public housing. Not since...
...Karamanlis wanted to be top dog, and he growled at each new move that boosted Papandreou's popularity. The new Premier froze rents, lavishly promised all Greeks a free education, declared a moratorium on farmers' debts, offered wage boosts to just about everybody. He gave up the Premier's limousine ("We can build four village schools with the money"), opened his office once a week to petitioners who swamped him with gripes, job requests, even demands to speed up their divorces. Though antiCommunist, Papandreou also managed to please leftists. He promised to free most...
Harvard's defense, offense, Ivy League championship aspirations, and fans froze to death Saturday in the Yale Bowl. When The Game ended, Eli followers were no less numb, but they were able to celebrate wildly Yale's 20-6 triumph...
...Dover for the simple reason that it was there and waiting. Until 1953, Bernard John Smyth's horizon did not extend beyond Renovo, Pa. There, after selling his share of the family jewelry store, he bought the Renovo Daily Record. Then some friend told him about Dover. Smyth froze like a pointer. If Renovo could support a daily with 3,000 inhabitants, why couldn't Dover, with 7,000 residents and a thriving girdle factory...
...airplanes on a "bombing" mission aimed at Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much as 14% in the seeded sector...