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...centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...
Fired at 4 a.m. Economist Pazos was fired in a tense, 4 a.m. Cabinet session climaxing months of disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht...
Overriding all is what Hall wryly calls his "ten-point program'' for sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter with a long display rack that put the selection out in the open. Hallmark sells the display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards...
sugar subsidy, which amounted to $190 million last year, as the difference be tween hope and disaster in Cuba. If it goes, the diplomats reason, Castro will be left with the spiraling economic chaos that his helter-skelter reforms have made...
...will work. Most attempts have been disastrous failures, chiefly because they were hastily executed and designed not as sound economic measures but attempts to destroy the latifundistas as a political class. ¶ Mexico's victorious rebels of 1910-17 burned down the stately haciendas, handed out land helter-skelter-and watched farm production sag. By 1940, when 64 million acres had been given to landless families, agricultural output stood 20% lower than in 1910. Reason: the new landowners were content to raise just enough to eat, committed such disastrous follies as smashing irrigation dams to plant crops...