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...talk of rebuilding North Viet Nam [Feb. 5] disgusts me. That country killed 50,000 of our men, wrecked the lives of thousands of others, and terrorized and plundered South Viet Nam for years. Our national debt is skyhigh. A lot of our own people are in need of help. Yet we are already talking about making the Communists more powerful...
...have ever been. We will accept no form of interference in our internal affairs from any quarter." Indeed, the boycott is showing some cracks. Iraq once again permits Alia overflights and recently backed down and allowed Jordan Valley tomatoes into Baghdad, because the price of local products had gone skyhigh. Syria last week announced that Jordanian phosphate trucks could once again use Syrian roads en route to the port of Beirut...
What doomed them was a catastrophe that rose from the bowels of the earth. Some time about the year 1500 B.C., Santorini exploded. The whole center of the island blew skyhigh. Not long afterward the sea rushed in to fill the red-hot wound of the crater. These two events produced what may well have been the most vast and terrible natural disaster ever to take place in the time that human beings have existed on the earth...
...still greater surge of inflation. Burns is all too well aware that the Administration has failed to accomplish its prime gameplan assignment of keeping the budget in balance. And by not holding down its own spending, the Government has contributed to the demand that has been driving prices skyhigh. By not collecting enough taxes to pay its bills, it has failed to set a psychologically important example of belt tightening for business, labor and consumers. By not avoiding deficits, the Government has been forced to resort to heavy borrowing. In the middle of a cash shortage, that borrowing only diverts...
...record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped at $500,000, the portrait was automatically withdrawn...