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...hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then on motorcycles and cars, later on travel. Today 'Germans are back on a food buying spree, this time an Edel-fresswelle, or high-class-food wave. The best South American coffees (at $2.50 per Ib.) are now as much a commonplace as washing machines and refrigerators...
...dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...
Chile's main income source, copper, will greatly help Alessandri's program. Selling for 31½ ? per Ib. on the New York market last week, copper was a fat 6½ ? above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
...houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged against possible strikes. The three major copper producers. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, hiked copper 1½? per Ib. to 31½?, highest price in 21 months. And steelmakers set a rate of 89.5% of rated capacity, said shipments were still far behind orders...
Captain Joe Noble, in the 157-Ib. class, will seek his eighth victory in his ninth match. His only loss this season was against Penn by a narrow 3-2 score. Heavyweight Ted Robbins' winning streak of six will probably not be threatened tonight...