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...Franklin in Paris, Robert Preston outfoxes French diplomats only to be bowled over by their women, notably one played by the lovely Swedish import Ulla Sallert. Book and lyrics are by prolific Sidney Michaels, who adapted Tchin-Tchin. Sherlock Holmes would hardly have approved, but he and Watson become song-and-dance men in the long-postponed Baker Street, now Broadway-bound with Fritz Weaver under the deerstalker. Fiddler on the Roof is nominally based on Sholom Aleichem's moralistic tales of Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russia, with irrepressible Zero Mostel in the leading role. The season...
Quotas in Question. Thanks to rising Brazilian prices, the U.S. housewife is now paying about 89? a b. for coffee, compared with 69? last year. Europeans, burdened also with high import duties on coffee, must pay even more-about $1.30 a ?b. in London, $2 in Rome, $2.50 in Paris. Last week the U.S. Congress, never too happy with the system of quotas on world coffee, reacted in the consumer's behalf: by a narrow 194-to-183 vote, the House rejected legislation that would allow the U.S. to join in the new quota agreement. Though Administration leaders count...
...living has zoomed 54% in eight months, unemployment is running 10%, trade and budget deficits remain dangerously high. Colombia's ambitious, ten-year development program-begun in 1958 under the administration of Alberto Lleras Camargo-is threatened by graft and inefficiency. Scandals have erupted everywhere, from the import license office to government housing projects. As the government sinks deeper into trouble, the country's Liberal-Conservative coalition is gradually fragmenting into its old warring factions. "Revolution is the only solution," urges Rojas. "This government cannot finish its term because it would finish the nation...
Founded by Englishmen William Newbold and Robert Geddes (the British ownership was severed in 1897), the bank opened its doors amid the civil war raging between the foreign-import Emperor Maximilian and Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juárez. Remarkably, it succeeded in winning the business of merchants and spreading into several branches, partly because it adopted the still-popular British stance of doing business with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome...