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Arms and the Exporter. The austerity measures were startlingly effective. Since devaluation, the franc has become one of Europe's solidest currencies. The gross national product grew by 6.2% last year, to $126 billion, while prices rose only 5.2%. Leading companies threw their energies into exports, which increased 21%. Arms exports boomed. In 1970, France sold $1.3 billion worth of military aircraft, submarines, helicopters and other equipment to 26 countries. France ranks second only to the U.S., which expects to sell $1.9 billion worth of armaments abroad in the fiscal year ending June...
...freshmen have followed that advice-and, with the exception of seven Southern Congressmen who owe their allegiance elsewhere, their fidelity to the programs of their party leader, Lyndon Johnson, has established them as just about the solidest voting bloc in Congress. The 58 non-Southern-bloc freshman Democrats differ greatly. Oklahoma's Jed Johnson is 25, while Iowa's John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion...
...Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work of a Polish sculptress, it is the biggest, solidest Nkrumah in the world...
Ogden, cross-country phenom, Walt Hewlett, Dave Allen, and Jim Smith give McCurdy the solidest mile contingent a coach could hope for. It's so strong, in fact, that McCurdy is talking of holding either Allen or Smith out of the mile to give the Crimson a fresh man to run with Hewlett in the two-mile...
Confidence of Congress. Hull was a likable Tennessee politician, who became a state circuit judge at 32, served 24 years in Congress and was elected Senator in 1930. Frail but craggy in appearance, he struck people as the solidest of citizens. He looked dignified, even saintlike. He spoke with gravity and with a slight, endearing lisp. When he helped put Roosevelt over at the 1932 Democratic Convention, he was practically assured appointment as Secretary of State. He brought to the job a conviction that all the world's ills could be cured by lowering tariffs and living...