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...Anybody Can Play . . ." Last week, in a backs-to-the-wall gesture against the relentless onslaught of modernity, Federal District authorities took steps to remit all taxes and licensing fees for the capital's remaining hundred hurdy-gurdy men. "The best in popular entertainment," cried an official, "is represented by the cilindrero." The cilindreros, lugging their 80-lb. hand organs along Mexico City's farthest-flung streets, are still favorite visitors in the poorest barrios. "Anybody can play an organ, but not everybody can carry one," is a standard all-purpose joke in Mexico...
...Advisory Council (composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Commerce, the heads of the Federal Reserve and Export-Import Banks, and the Director of Mutual Security), would do much to assure the success of the Latin republic's new "free" exchange rate, which permits foreign firms to remit earned profits without limit. The loan and the new rate give Brazil, despite its current $850 million foreign-trade debt, another chance to get back into world markets...
Requests in the form of cables from Hong Kong signed by intermediaries were frankly blackmail. One sent to San Francisco read: "Grandfather fined $2,000 U.S. Remit money immediately or lifeless." A Boston Chinese was informed that his family was in a concentration camp-unless he paid, each member would be lashed by ropes to five horses and pulled apart. The extortion letters and cables were even sent to such places as Wichita, Kans., which has only 100 Chinese...
...Please Remit...
...Communist Party of Florence is flat broke. Last week, Comrade Gino Mazzoni came forth with a brand-new project designed to achieve solvency: let each farmer in the country around Florence select the most promising chick in his flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...