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...answer to "fidelismo," he asserts, is not military dictatorship and rabid anti-Communism but rather efforts toward representative democracy. He presents a list of seventeen major policy prescriptions, ranging from a guarantee of free trade and price stabilization agreements to serious shake-ups in the Alliance for Progress; he cautions that the Alliance should not be "a panicky series of loans and grants that will have no more permanent effect than a handout to an alcoholic beggar...
...concessions (total: $15,000). Rumors kept popping up that Finley was planning to move-to Atlanta, Dallas, Oakland, San Diego, and goodness knows where else. As fast as they popped up, Finley denied them. "The Athletics are definitely staying in Kansas City," he said on Dec. 20. Seventeen days later, he signed a contract to move the Athletics to Louisville, Ky. -a city that had been unable to make a go of minor-league baseball. To make the desperate switch, Finley needed the approval of other American League owners, and he acted confident of getting it. "I am sure they...
...choice of an auto, Ford has set up an "airline hostess advisory panel," which is invited to Detroit to tour Ford's plants and styling studios and offer its opinions. Ford features pictures of the seven hostesses in its ads in such magazines as Seventeen to show that women have a word in Ford's looks...
...four children have given her a great deal of pleasure. "My elder daughter Le Thuy," Mme. Nhu gestured at the lovely seventeen-year-old who sat, poised and relaxed, across the room, "is not only a good deal taller than me--surely a sign of progress [In three inch heels Mme. Nhu stood under five feet]--but she will soon enter medical school in Vietnam. My other daughter [five years old] I expect will also have a career. But all my children shall do as they wish. I would have preferred Le Thuy to have been a lawyer...
...Haupt, 74, one of Wall Street's better-known stockbrokers, who began as a runner at 13, was a member of the Stock Exchange at 24, built a thriving brokerage house with ten offices across the U.S., and used his wealth to grow orchids and, with his wife, Seventeen Editor and Publisher Enid Haupt, collect French impressionist art; of cancer; in Manhattan...