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Right before the eyes of the voters, the New Frontier employment agency put members of the U.S. Senate on the spot with the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether, 49, to be director of the Export-Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business...
...maximum of $24 million a year, the U.S. poured in about twice that amount. As naive in business as in politics, the Laotians hardly knew how to handle their new wealth-until a few sharp Indian and Chinese traders rushed into Vientiane to show them. Favorite device: the import license. Laotians with political pull got import licenses for everything from feather dusters to nail polish to television sets-though there is no TV station in Laos. They could then buy foreign exchange at the official rate of 35 kip to the dollar, sell the dollars on the black market...
...Delay. For their part, the officials of Ramapo township feel that their patience has been severely tried by a wily band which, if it has its way, will import droves of bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses...
VOLKSWAGEN U.S. SALES, running directly counter to most imported car sales, hit a monthly record in December of 15,523. VW's total 1960 car registrations soared 33% over 1959 to 159,995, while total import registrations were dropping from 1959's high...
Wonderland by Night (Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra; Dacca). An import from Germany that rocks on its mistily melodic way like an old-fashioned excursion steamer. The orchestra is expert, the vintage Prom Trotter...