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...last week alarming rumors of troop movements beyond the borders filled San Jose newspapers. Costa Rica braced itself for invasion by dissident filibusterers (TIME, Nov. 29). But through it all, President Jose ("Pepe") Figures kept cool, calm and laconic. Said his Saturday official communique: "No invasion is expected this weekend...
...bougainvillaea-spangled Petropolis, Brazil's traditional summer capital (see above), Latin American delegates to the inter-American economic conference last week opened their campaign for a massive new program of help from the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 22). The response was a blend of sweet reasonableness and polite standoff from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Latinos wanted price floors for the raw materials they supply the U.S.; Humphrey countered that "We as governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested...
Last week Romano Barberis of Milan and Paolo Scanzoni of Rome, who worked out Filtravox, were happily sure that they had filled a long-felt need. Since Osserva-tore's announcement on Nov. 10, they have been getting phone calls, letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when...
When the famous jaw of "Piltdown man" was proved by chemical tests to be a skillful fake (TIME. Nov. 30. 1953), some authorities were unwilling to condemn the late Charles Dawson, a respected antiquarian of southern England who claimed to have found it in 1911. The faking was too good, the experts said, for a man without technical skill...
Halpern has run such star-spangled events as the Marciano-Charles heavyweight championship fight last September and the opening of the Metropolitan Opera in November (TIME, Nov. 22). But he also learned that the big money lay in televising national sales meetings and other conventions for big corporations. In the past two years T.N.T. has televised eleven conventions for companies ranging from National Dairy (Seal-test) to James Lees carpets. At one such TV roundup, International Business Machines was able to brief 2,000 salesmen in Manhattan on a new electronic brain instead of bringing them to its Poughkeepsie...