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John Lindsay is not a man to let his troubles get him down. Although a million pupils are out of school, firemen are on a "slowdown," and other public strikes threaten, New York's Mayor seemed as exuberant as ever last week. Returning from a television appearance, he met TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont for an interview at Grade Mansion. Reported Lamont...
...took for little or no fee; he hopes to cut deeply into his opponent's strength among Negroes. His involvement in gunrunning to embattled Israeli freedom fighters in 1948 also gives him the hope of cracking Javits' near monopoly on; New York's more than 1.7 million Jewish votes. But O'Dwyer remains an all but certain loser to one of the best vote getters in U.S. politics...
...that the ban is only partly lifted, other heavy equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, most likely will follow. Making the most of Greece's new strategic importance, the junta is demanding a 50% increase in U.S. aid, which prior to the coup had been averaging $65 million per year...
...Atlanta, faced with the cost of separately housing a symphony hall, theater, museum, ballet studio and art school, culture-loving Georgians decided to pool their efforts and put them all under one roof in the new, $13 million Memorial Arts Center, the work of two local architectural firms. Dedicated to the memory of 122 Atlanta arts patrons who were killed in a Paris plane crash in 1962, the center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look...
Wipe Out. During its first 100 years or so, the U.S. economy was supported by European capital. Europeans bankrolled Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase ($11 million), and European financiers were principal backers of the railroads and the steel, petroleum, mining, cotton and Southwestern cattle industries. The European stake in the U.S. peaked at $7 billion in 1914, but it took two world wars to all but wipe it out. German plants in the U.S. were confiscated in both world wars. Other Europeans sold off their U.S. holdings to raise cash for their war efforts...