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...Communists played a substantial part in the revolution. Yet when the report was first issued on May 8, not a single U.S. paper picked it up. Next day Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, held an hour-long press briefing on the report, but even that was given scant play in the press...
Unfortunately, all of Murder's devices prove to be just about as hopelessly primitive as that. The dialogue offers a redoubtable challenge to actors required to speak it with straight faces. They get scant help from Director George Englund, who apparently felt stymied by a shocker in which the only new gimmick is the discovery of the wheel...
John Bakkensen got the Crimson's other individuals win with his first place in the discus. His winning throw of 177 ft., 8 in was a scant 3 1/4 in. off the Heptagonal record...
Beneath this veneer, however, Yugoslavia began to price itself out of world markets; its trade deficit rose to a record $424 million, draining off the country's scant reserves of foreign exchange. Many factories were forced to halt imports of raw materials, slow down production lines and lay off workers. Faced with creeping unemployment and mounting foreign debts, the government has turned westward for help on two fronts: it is exporting tens of thousands of workers to temporary jobs in labor-short Western Europe, and it is shopping for loans in the U.S. and elsewhere in the capitalist world...
...Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair in the stretch, losing by a scant half length...