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...even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could pick it up. An orthopedic surgeon gave Grace the answer: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. Only a delicate bone graft could save him. Grace Kim made her decision...
When he took office after an era of openhanded public spending, Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines suspended all government contracts to comb them for waste and graft. Construction industries soon felt the pinch and the whole economy slowed down. In 1953, output fell, the foreign-trade deficit rose one-third, and nearly all employers laid off help. Last week, faced by a worsening business recession, the President announced that he would shelve austerity and spend a record $400 million this year on pump-priming public works...
There was a lot of work to be done when Andrews took over the graft-and politics-ridden revenue service last year. He set a challenging goal: to restore public confidence in the revenue service and to re-create the impression that no one can cheat the federal income-tax collector...
...plumber for seeking their jobs. Why must the politicians be given such a roasting? It is fortunate indeed that there are enough good American men and women with courage enough to undergo the siege of insults thrown at their efforts, the cries of incompetence, the insinuations of graft, and the snickering at their proclaimed ideals...
...third as great as the number of people qualified by education or training to fill them. After any President has been in office three years, it is plain who the lucky ones are, and the hungry outsiders naturally begin to grumble, agitate, fire bitter charges of inefficiency and graft. Magloire's good friend, Chief of Police Marcaisse Prosper, has provided an unfortunate focus for criticism. The juiciest current gossip of Haiti concerns Prosper's new hilltop home in fashionable Petionville, big as a U.S. small-city high school, lavishly furnished by Manhattan's W. & J. Sloane...