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...little," Menderes introduced a budget one-fourth larger than last year's inflationary extravaganza. Items: a new 40% levy on all imports, a 70% sales tax on some 260 kinds of so-called luxury products. Overnight, prices shot up a further 30% to 40%, and even the hardiest Democrats began muttering in the bazaars...
...genetic experiments have produced some interesting new breeds: the Brangus (⅜ Brahman, ⅝ Angus), the Braford (½ Hereford, ½ Brahman), the Charbray (13/16 Charollaise, 3/16 Brahman). The famed million-acre King Ranch has the Santa Gertrudis (⅜ Brahman, ⅝ Shorthorn), claiming that it is the best beef on the hardiest animal. Last summer the Russian agricultural delegation visiting the U.S. took a look at the Santa Gertrudis and said, "This is one thing we very much want...
...Mere Squeeze. The weapons decided on for Khokhlov's mission were specially designed and built according to MVD specifications. As displayed for newsmen in Bonn last week, they were enough to send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead...
Unlike the Bathyscaphe explorer who faces a more insidious danger. For on getting together, the Atlantic and Atlantis, can deliver a stomach torturing roll designed to reduce even the hardiest scientist to a pale, seasick green. In the cramped quarters of the best, the dining table is set on a pivot to allow for a roll that often nears fifty degrees...
Bucher's dive was not made solely as a stunt. It called attention to the efforts of a small group of fans in one of the world's hardiest sports: underwater game fishing. Backed in part by Italy's National Council of Scientific Research (and also by the Italian Olympic Committee), Bucher and a group of nine others are now planning the "first underwater big game hunt in history...