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...down, and the economy is so healthy that the government could pass up a U.S. loan offer of $15 million. To make them more impressive, the accomplishments are the work of what would seem to be two political cats in a sack: fiery Benito Nardone, 53, a former traveling salesman who leads Uruguay's noisily reform-minded ruralistas, and wily Eduardo Victor Haedo, 59, a witty ex-teacher who bosses the rightist National (Blanco) Party. Two years ago when they joined forces to defeat the Colorado Party that had ruled Uruguay for 93 years, the losers scoffed: "They will...
False Manifests. Castro's first guns came from the Belgians, whose enterprising arms salesman showed him the strong, light FN (Fabrique Nationale) 7.62-mm. rifle used by NATO. So anxious was Castro to get the rifles that he ordered 25,000 at double the usual $75 price, plus 52 million cartridges, 2,000 new 9-mm. pistols, hundreds of machine guns and more than 100,000 artillery and mortar shells. At least twelve ships delivered 75% of the order before "friendly warnings" to Belgium by the U.S. forced a halt...
...have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner's, according to a Rolls salesman, "not-quite-royal" blue...
...confirmed by his expertly elocuted Thersites in the recent Troilus and Cressida), the Mrs. Gibbs of De French, the Mrs. Webb of Dixie Dewitt, the Emily of Barbara Blanchard '60, and the George of Philip D. Harvey '62. This was definitely the finest HDC show since Death of a Salesman in 1956, and the finest show by any Harvard group since Deathwatch...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace...