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...were all Latin Americans them selves any less bearish. According to the best estimates, Latin Americans have $11 billion invested abroad and stashed away in U.S. and Swiss banks. How much went out last year is hard to pin down, but U.S. economists think the figure could be as high as $800 million. Said a Quito businessman, with feeling: "If all the capital abroad would return, Ecuador could be very well off. No basic foreign aid would be necessary...
Nevis E. Cook said that as a result of stories in the CRIMSON, the F.D.A. had been in touch with University officials about the drug problem, but that so far its work had consisted of "trying to pin down rumors...
Other victorious Crimson grapplers were Fred Periera, wrestling at 177 instead of at his normal 167 pound slot, John Hoffman, who wrestled unlimited, and captain Bob Kolodney, at 157 pounds, who decisioned his opponent, 16-3, missing a pin as the buzzer ended the second period...
They were crammed onto the ballots by men who could inscribe the Gettysburg Address on the head of a pin. They were couched in legal jargon that boggled the brain. U.S. voters struggled mightily to decipher and decide upon propositions to outlaw gambling, legalize liquor, install traffic lights, enlarge cities and amend state constitutions. In the hullabaloo over the 1962 election fights, the decisions on these propositions were often ignored. But in many states, what won may turn out to be even more important than...
Heeding the counsel of both Pat Brown and Dick Nixon. California defeated 3 to 2 a scheme that would have allowed grand juries and a flock of state and federal boards and officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...