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...soon he was accepting loans from the U.S. and Britain, making trade agreements with Italy, getting loans from the Export-Import Bank. After the drought of 1950, Tito brusquely applied for a U.S. emergency grant and got $69 million. But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, "stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line...
...sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...
...Court follows the advice of Southern spokesmen, it will grant at least a five or ten year "period of adjustment" to Dixieland schools before pressing integration. The U.S. Solicitor General has suggested flexibility of less sweeping import; he would give the Federal District Courts wide discretion in enforcing de-segregation in what they deemed the shortest practical time. In striking contrast to these arguments, however, the able attorneys for the NAACP have spoken vigorously for a Supreme Court decree that would proclaim "immediate integration of all Southern schools." The massive evidence of sociology that has engulfed the Court...
...turning on his television set, but at the Armory there was no way to turn it off. For 40 minutes, tumbling acts, ballets, production numbers, and fashion shows took turns on the stage with message from the sponsor smoothly lubricated in at 10-second intervals. The import of the lyrics concocted by the corporation-owned Joyee Kilmer was that only Fisher can make a body...
...work, and in the second place, our constitution forbids any President to run again." Odria's decision sets up a knotty political problem for him and for Peru. The country has moved forward economically under honest, efficient Dictator Odria. By boldly unpegging the currency, cutting away useless export-import controls, and welcoming foreign investment capital, he stimulated production and trade. But with economic liberty went tight political control. In the absence of functioning political parties and a free press, the conditions for a democratic or even a democratic-looking presidential election do not exist in Peru. And they...