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...Incan Indian appears to have been delivered because of a slovenly mix-up of orders at the Philadelphia foundry that made it. When the wrong Indian arrived in Cuzco, with three feathers in the hair and a bow in the hand, Cuzco happened to be preoccupied by graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never...
Against him, some U.S. economists argue that to equate past and present price upcreep is unsound, that creeping inflation is a graver menace than it used to be. Economist Burns points out that the past few decades have gradually brought two new inflationary factors into the U.S.'s economic structure: 1) Big Labor's power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when...
Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboy's barring out Too comic for the solemn things they are Too comic for the solemn things in them...
...plain fact remains that the situation would be far graver and the peril to world peace much greater if the United States Government had indulged in appeasement or procrastination...
Despite the political debility of the French Republic, France is not yet on the verge of a coup d'état. The one individual who might bring off a coup-General Charles de Gaulle-cannot hope to do so without a far graver crisis and far more parliamentary support than he now commands. The unrest in the French army, which has aroused nervous talk abroad of a military coup, is still largely confined to a few embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary...