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...only recent sale of U.S. goods was a puny shipment of police motorcycles of the kind Touré saw and admired in Los Angeles during his U.S. tour last year. For private Western businessmen, the outlook is dark indeed. Government cooperatives are taking over foreign trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even...
Approximately 600 highland farms are up for sale, many of them at cut prices by owners who talk bitterly of leaving the country. Half a dozen of the angriest settlers were at Nairobi Airport to greet homecoming Michael Blundell (see box), the moderate who accepted the new plan in London and bravely agreed to try to sell it to his fellow whites. One kept booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful...
This week the new tranquilizer goes on sale (by prescription only) throughout the U.S., with encouraging evidence that it will have the same effect on 70% or more of anxious, tense and hostile humans as it has on dingoes. Trade-named Librium by New Jersey's Roche Laboratories, it is technically methamino-diazepoxide, a synthetic chemical unrelated to previous ataractic drugs. Finding the right dose for individual patients is admittedly tricky. But the manufacturers claim that when this is achieved, Librium comes close to producing pure relief from strain without drowsiness or dulling of mental processes. Also claimed: unusual...
...Hartford housewives, Mrs. Barbara Sanzo, mother of five, and Mrs. Laura Pope, mother of four, the women formed the Connecticut Milk Consumers Association to agitate against state milk laws that made it easy to keep prices high, particularly a 30-year-old law forbidding the sale of milk in economy-size half-gallon and gallon jugs. Holding public meetings, going on radio and TV pressuring legislators, the women raised such a rumpus that Connecticut's legislature passed a pair of bills legalizing both half-gallon and gallon jugs. But even then milk prices stayed high until a supermarket chain...
Transistor Portable TV. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. will put on sale in April the first U.S. transistorized portable TV set with a direct-view picture instead of a magnified image. The 28-lb., loin. set will cost about...