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Khrushchev delivered this "friendly" warning at a Moscow reception marking the signing with Iraq of a major new $138 million Soviet loan agreement. The agreement, pledging the Iraqis a twelve-year credit for building a steel mill and at least 14 factories, thrust the Soviet Union into Britain's old place at the center of oil-rich Iraq's economic development. The first 80 Soviet technicians, said Iraq's Communist-lining Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba. would arrive within a month...
...remember the copper shortages of several years ago, which were politically rather than economically caused." Strikes have already shut one U.S. smelter and threatened the big mines of Northern Rhodesia. Copper buyers are also hedging the possibility of a strike June 30, when the contract of the International Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers expires. Thus copper experts expect the price to go still higher. But when labor peace is assured, they think it will settle down, because current refinery capacity of upwards of 2,000,000 tons is more than enough, even if business picks up more...
Family Man. Perry, 47, has never wavered from the family feeling that he got back in Canonsburg, Pa., where he was born "lucky," the seventh son of a seventh son. His father was an Italian immigrant mill hand with 13 kids. Perry began early as a barber, at 14 had his own shop, and never intended to leave Canonsburg. Even after crooning for Ted Weems during the 1930s, Perry went home in 1942 intending to open another shop. But booking agents never stopped phoning, and soon he was at Manhattan's Copacabana...
...long illness and two years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later switched to straight plays and the cinema...
BILL FARR has just installed an automated $200.000 feed mill, 100 ft. high and 60 ft. long, to prepare food for the 10,000 cattle he fattens on his feed lots near Greeley, Colo. Truckloads of corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...