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...Mussolini's prewar heyday, when 20 lire equaled one U.S. dollar, a small-time lo'ser unwilling or unable to pay his fine could work it off in jail at about $2.50 a day. Postwar laws boosted fines in proportion to the lira's value of 620 to the dollar, but set the price of a day's work in the pokey at a measly 64?. The latest revision of the jail scale retroactively boosts the value of a day at hard labor to $8. Wardens all over Italy spent most of a week working over...
...even 19th century Great Britain, in the heyday of empire, had as many military commitments as the U.S. Armed Forces when John Kennedy took office last January. And never was any force better equipped for its job. But last week, convinced that the danger of battle lies hidden in many trouble spots around the earth, the President called for reinforcements that will bring the U.S. close to full wartime strength and will also provide new flexibility to meet a wide range of military threats. In a televised speech from the White House, and in a legislative message to Congress next...
...Americans under their middle 50s can have any direct memory of Lloyd George in his heyday; curiosity about his character and career are minimal. Nevertheless, from the most unlikely source, Lloyd George has been accorded a highly engaging biography. Richard Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 72, has succeeded in a most difficult biographical enterprise -to write of a famous father without being a bore, a dupe of his fame or indulging in Oedipal iconoclasm. Part memoir, part history and part character study, the book is written with a_ wry acceptance of the comedy inherent in all consanguinity. Clearly, Richard Lloyd...
...Ford and Chevrolet; in the last few years dealers have been forced to cut profits drastically just to move their cars. The first question a buyer now asks when he walks into a showroom is: How much below list can I get it for? Result: haggling is in its heyday. Sighs E.C. McAllister, head of his own Mercury-Comet agency in Dallas: "It's like an Arabian bazaar...
...hopelessly unsalable show such as Menotti's opera, Maria Golovin. He can haggle with a star over $15, more or less, to be paid a dresser, yet he is often liberal with authors' advances. He is widely celebrated as Broadway's biggest s.o.b. since the heyday of Jed Harris, but he has the respect of many professionals from Josh Logan to Garson Kanin, and his steady, money-making backers think he is a major prophet...