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...airplanes to Europe, and two of these facts directly contradict information given by Dustin Burke. (1) It is possible to charter projects to Europe this summer. While Mr. Burke claimed that this was impossible. I have seen a signed quotation by an airline to a N.Y. organization for a prop-jet to Europe this coming summer at a cost of $10,000 for 87 seats which is $115 per seat. (2) Prices have not gone up significantly this coming summer as a compared to last summer, as Mr. Burke claimed. In fact, the round trip cost of chartering...
...edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
...Minneapolis, to replace Robert V. Roosa, who is joining a New York investment firm. Roosa will be a tough act to follow; he was a key figure in the intricate international finance operation in November that poured a desperately needed $3 billion loan into the British treasury to prop up the sagging pound. But Deming, an economist with a Ph.D. from St. Louis' Washington University and a career man in the Federal Reserve System for 23 years, was hand-picked in mid-1962 by Roosa himself to be his stand-by replacement in an emergency. Deming...
...professionals failed to assess prop erly the romance of space and, as a result, vastly underestimated Comsat's continued attraction for investors. The stock has been rising almost steadily for three months, and last week it soared in a speculative orbit...
...roots power has taken a twofold?if not an eightfold?path. In the more agitated countries, the monks have used it as a way into politics; in the quieter lands, all of the lesser-chariot persuasion, they have used it to stay out of politics, merely adding a conservative prop to support existing institutions...