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...replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were in Manhattan, where the ex-ambassador was laying plans for a speaking tour designed to cover up what he called...
...that I had learned about the value of constructive news" and by studying the techniques of the News. The Mirror continued to reflect a rash of stunts calculated to hook the reader: Yo-Yo contests, picture puzzles, yards of crime coverage in an era when New York streets rang with the din of gang wars. By 1932, Mirror circulation passed 500,000. But the News passed...
...home. He addressed the crowd in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. Hushed on other days, St. Peter's is no church of silence when an audience is in session. As the Pope read off the list of the day's visiting organizations, the great basilica rang with sound-handclapping and whistles, shrill, peeping vivas from nuns and grade-school delegations, deep-toned cheers from seminarians...
Last week's record-breaking sale of Canadian wheat to the Russians (see THE WORLD) stimulated more than the Canadian economy; it rang like a mating call for those iron-stomached speculators who go after big profits, and risk even bigger losses, by trading in commodity futures. The speculators rushed in to buy wheat futures, gambling that the Soviet crop failure would mean a larger market for U.S. wheat. They sent prices up as much as 13½? on the Chicago Board of Trade, and the lucky ones were able to make a 130% profit on their investment...
...Most Heartening." The consumer is spending once more as the economists think he should. The last reported week shows department-store sales gains for every federal reserve district in the U.S. Opening a new budget-store branch, Detroit's J. L. Hudson rang up $40,000 in the first three hours. Sales at Rich's in Atlanta, the South's biggest store, are running 8% ahead of last year's. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, the two biggest mail-order houses (Sears is also the world's biggest retailer), both set sales records in July...