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...like so many Fourth of July flags. Processing the bets were highly organized wire rooms where the big bookies sat at banks of telephones, raked in a take every dollar as good as the rackets produced in Capone's heyday. All this confirmed the Crime Commission's long-held fear that the town would be opened up shortly after last year's election...
...four years in power, the military junta of 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Nasser could boast of considerable progress. It had overthrown a corrupt monarch, broken a sordid feudal aristocracy's long-held power over Egypt's politics, disowned the murderous fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and driven British troops from Egyptian soil after 74 years of occupation. It had imposed some stability. It had done less well in grappling with the ancient miseries of one of the world's poorest countries. By making his deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence...
...that, win or lose in the general election, he was assuming direct personal leadership of the state organization and intended to retain it for the next four years. He won the election, bringing down the New Jersey Republican organization, whose timbers had been rotting behind an impressive facade of long-held power...
Internal Insecticide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced success with a long-held dream of agricultural chemists: an insecticide that makes the whole plant deadly to insects that try to feed on it. The chemical, called Thimet for short,* was developed by American Cyanamid Co. It is mixed 50-50 with carbon dust, and 8 lbs. of the blend is mixed with 100 lbs. of cottonseed before planting. The cost for an acre of cotton...
...lessen the burden on the economy, federal spending was cut. As it cut expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration cut taxes. Since Jan. 20, 1953, a total of $7.4 billion has been pared off the federal tax bill. But the Administration has failed to realize a long-held Republican aim: it has not balanced the budget...