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...sooner had Maria-dressed in a red lace decollete sheath-given correct answers to eight questions on Greek tragedy (thus qualifying for 640,000 lire, or $1,024) than thousands of televiewers and an excitable press began complaining of her "exuberant body." Harried program directors corralled Italy's top couturiers in an effort to camouflage Maria, who complained: "Can I help it if I'm not built like a telephone pole...
...replying to Premier Adnan Menderes' recent clampdown on freedom of the press in Turkey (TIME, June 11). But though Chivi was only fooling, it soon found that Menderes was not. The ink was scarcely dry, when Chivi's editor was haled into court, fined 10,000 lire ($3,600) and sentenced to a year in jail for "writing with malicious and tendentious intent...
...will spend $2 billion abroad this year. Nicholas Deak, who heads Manhattan's Deak & Co. and Perera Co. foreign-exchange companies, said that travelers could save millions by buying their foreign currency on the U.S. free market before they leave. As it is, most travelers buy their lire, pesetas and francs abroad, where currency is often pegged at unrealistically high official rates. Travelers can beat the official rate by trading in the black market, but they risk being stuck with counterfeit bills or a fistful of paper wrapped in bank notes...
...MARKET OFFICIAL RATE Argentina 32 pesos to the $1 18 to the $1 Bolivia 5,500 bolivianos 190 Brazil 83 cruzeiros 18.75 Burma 10 kayats 4.76 Finland 300 marks France 395 francs 350 Japan 385 yen 360 Pakistan 6.40 rupees 4.76 Philippines 2.85 pesos Spain 43 pesetas Turkey 9.50 lire...
...Paris, Zürich), had shrunk from last year's daily average of 3,000,000 shares to 300,000 before the strike. Although Italian industry is humming at record pitch, the value of stocks listed on the Milan board has been sliced one-third (to 2 trillion lire) since the tax measure was passed by the Chamber of Deputies last December; blue-chip Fiat stock, for example, skidded from 1,845 lire to 1,083 when the strike started...