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...streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome never let up. Before boarding a plane for home last week, Café Filho whirled through a hectic round of receptions, state dinners and sightseeing...
...good will. The visit ended with a long and bibulous dinner in the Kremlin, given by Premier Bulganin himself, and Chancellor Raab, unable to contain himself until he got back, happily telephoned his good news to his People's Party headquarters in Vienna. Promise & Price. In those four hectic days, the Russians briskly disposed of all obstacles they themselves had raised in ten years. They made real concessions. The big one: agreement that all occupation troops be withdrawn immediately after the state treaty is signed, "and in any case not later than...
...game leg apiece. The dance was the merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots. Says Danceman Murray, currently spending two hours a day practicing merengue steps himself: "I am confident that the merengue will soon become more popular in this country than the mambo...
...years had Wall Street gone through such a hectic week. On Monday, as Wall Streeters gloomed over the Fulbright investigation, stocks had their biggest drop since the start of the Korean war. Industrials fell 9.72 points, to 391.36, back to where they were in early December. Next day Wall Street took cheer from Treasury Secretary Humphrey's testimony (see below), and stocks bounded up. They ended with a gain of 7.92 points, the largest single-day's advance since Sept. 5, 1939. In the next two days they crept up farther, ended up the week with...
...help you," said Norodom, preparing to start a new popular movement among his people. Presumably, this meant that he would pit his own popularity, rather than that of his ministers, against Son Ngoc Thanh. Norodom's course, as usual, was a little uncertain, but certain to be hectic...