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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks one better. He attracted the bank's regular customers by offering to pay them 25% to 30% annual interest on loans to him. His good reputation-and the fact that Giuffrè's bank paid only 12%-brought in the clients. In 1949 Giuffrè resigned from the bank, began offering up to 100% interest...
IRON CURTAIN AIRLINES are moving into Middle East. Czech State Airline started regular Prague-Cairo flights with Russian-built TU- 104 jets...
There were a few demurrers. Russia's Gromyko, complaining that the resolution did not call for "immediate withdrawal" of U.S. and British troops, threatened to reopen the debate at the next regular Assembly session (Sept. 16). From the Israelis came the bitter complaint that "This makes the Middle East's prime troublemakers-Nasser and the Arab League -into its policemen." But in the last analysis, nobody wanted to go on record as opposing an Arab solution to Arab problems, and when it came to a vote the resolution passed...
...hope of catching the Jekyll-Hyde transformation before it gets on-camera. few show's rely solely on their "people getters." They have their own interviews, their own exhaustive questionnaires. Some of them even require references. Diane, who supplies contestants for both Dotto and Haggis Baggis (on a regular retainer) and also sends a few to Lucky Partner and Name That Tune (which pay by the head), conducts her own interviews-in-depth. She is opposed to the popular practice of giving written tests before screening contestants. "Anyone can look bad on written questions," says she. "And anyway, what...
...causing contractors to go out right away and hire men, add equipment. Congress stimulated housing construction by giving an extra $1.9 billion to Fannie May (actually more than the Administration had asked for), provided extra unemployment benefits for an average of 13 weeks to those who had exhausted their regular benefits. The Government poured more money into highway construction, eliminated the transportation tax on freight, began fattening pay envelopes in June with the first installment of $1.4 billion in pay raises for military and civilian employees. States and cities helped by raising their expenditures more than 15% for the first...