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...rub is that Dorian has bested Lucky on her own home ground-and in two years has revolutionized Paris modeling. She did it simply by starting the city's first successful agency (partly to take her mind off the Marquis de Portago, who fathered her fourth child but died in a 1957 auto racing accident before he got around either to marrying her or adopting the boy). Her first business problem was a French law that forbids charging a fee for finding someone employment (a clause she evaded by charging the fee to magazines or photographers rather than...
Canada pointed a disapproving finger at the U.S. - not merely because of competition or the inevitable abrasive rub between adjoining economies. The complaint is that the U.S. controls Canada's economic destiny and holds it back. Long uneasy over the extent of U.S. ownership of Canadian industry and the southward flow of the rewards (60% of all Canadian corporate dividends are paid to foreign investors), Canadians now argue that the U.S. saps Canada's strength, preventing the necessary industrialization for its rising population. At the head of the chorus stands Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, crying...
...hops. Illegal brewing is said to be India's "busiest cottage industry," and every new tin roof is taken as evidence that its owner has supplemented his income by engaging in the liquor trade. India's gangsters, called goondas, glory in such names as The Black Panther, rub out their rivals not with tommy guns but with iron rods, bicycle chains, broken bottles and knives. With bootleg profits running as high as 800%, goondas can afford impressive bribes to cops who earn only $16 a month. Seven Bombay policemen were recently charged with forcing a retired bootlegger back...
...systematic deception of the public practiced for eight years by the Eisenhower government. This is one of those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people all of the time...
...junta: three army officers, three civilians. Colonel Miguel Angel Castillo, at 44 the oldest junta member, was customs-guard chief under Lemus; Colonel César Yáñez Urias. 40, was a key officer at San Carlos Fort, where the country's ammunition is kept; Major Rubén Alonso Rosales, 35, shared in command of El Zapote Fort overlooking the presidential palace, where the army stored most of its weapons. The civilians-Dr. Fabio Castillo, 42, and Lawyers René Fortin Magaña, 29, and Ricardo Falla Cáceres, 30 -are all connected with...