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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of current estimates, said Verrier, the 1957 budget will be in the red by $350 million (at the free rate), and a foreign-trade deficit of $250 million is in sight by year's end. This would more than wipe out the nation's $237 million in gold and dollar reserves...
...have unlimited expense accounts. Manhattan career girls are born in the Midwest and tantalize men by biting their ear lobes. Bigtime gangsters send their sons to Princeton. Men are only big overgrown boys and have terrible taste in furniture. Women hate each other and get hysterical at the sight of blood. When a bachelor stops his convertible on a side road at night and murmurs "How about it, huh?" he is of course proposing marriage...
When well-meaning but bumbling Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo set up his Nationalist-Moslem coalition government a year ago, after the country's first general elections, many of his countrymen (the majority of whom are illiterate) felt that they were at last within sight of the day when some semblance of law and order could be achieved. But the forces ranged against Ali-including his own incompetence-proved too great...
...fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...
...booth for a more difficult test: the simultaneous rendering into Italian of a speech in French, a second in English. Finally she took her place behind a "delegate's desk" and was ordered to do the same thing all over again, this time translating the text on sight. The ordeal over, the professors made their decision: Giovanna had passed...