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...their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...
...presented in Basel, Switzerland, in the 25th annual report of the Bank for International Settlements. Said the bank's General Manager Roger Auboin: "Nineteen fifty-four has been for the world a year of prosperity and promise." Proof of this prosperity came in a nation-by-nation roundup. In Europe's 17 OEEC countries,* gross national product rose an average 4% during 1954. The big point, said Banker Auboin. is that Western Europe continued its postwar boom despite the short U.S. "recession" that began late in 1953. While the index of industrial production in the U.S. showed...
...Wolf Roundup. But for most retailers the legal problems were small compared to the pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...Department should continue to have policy control; the military should add supervision of nonmilitary items, e.g., Army cots and shoes, to the distribution of weapons; and a new agency, called the International Cooperation Administration, should be created within the State Department to handle the details. ¶ Heard "a general roundup of world developments" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who flew to Augusta for lunch. Dulles said that one subject discussed was the recent buildup of military power by the Chinese Communists opposite Formosa. Questioned by reporters, Dulles said that the buildup is "more intensive and more broad...
...FOREIGN NEWS story Reaction to Yalta is a roundup of official and unofficial reaction from abroad. In PRESS, How to Lose a Beat offers a classic example of a Washington "leak," and tells the details and pro fessional mechanics of how the Yalta papers got into public print...