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Molotov's departure had been long foreseen; the surprise was in the timing. In a gesture worthy of Herod, Molotov's head was served on a platter as a welcome to Tito...
Cheap Beer. In Argentina, post-Peron devaluation of the official rate of the peso has forced its value on the free market, legalized after the September revolution, from around 30 to a current of 36. Thus traded, a dollar will buy such bargains as a platter-size steak with a bottle of wine, or five pints of good Cordoba beer, or admission to seven first-run movies or a ten-mile ride in a taxi. A rent of $300 a month gets a country house with a swimming pool and big garden...
Listening to the right-wingers in his Cabinet talk. Faure suddenly lit on the answer. He had Grandval's head on a platter; why not use it to win his point? At week's end. Faure agreed to sack Grandval in return for the support of his right wing in accepting Grandval's plan...
...protested the deal. Only T.W.A., which stands to gain a new route through Germany, was for the agreement. Angry and scornful, the other lines called the State Department negotiators "stupid" and "inept," argued that they had been maneuvered into handing the Germans the entire Western Hemisphere on a silver platter...
...statehood bill, said he, guarantees "Harry Bridges fwo seats in the Senate and two in the House . . . Statehood at this time would only serve to deliver the Hawaiian state government to the Communist Party on a silver platter...