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...result was a sharp pickup in business. If last week's cut does not spur business, FRB was in a mood to cut some more. But despite spreading unemployment it still planned to move slowly. Warned Martin: "We must recognize that excessive stimulus during a recession can sow seeds of inflation that can jeopardize our long-run stability...
...Soviet .Union's Marshal Bulganin fired off his 15-page let's-be-reasonable letters to the NATO leaders last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) to meet another logical, overriding need: to head off any new NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer...
...Communists are obviously intent on maintaining pork production. Country newspapers recently praised extravagantly a farm woman whose cooperatively owned sow died while still suckling half a dozen little pigs; the woman saved the pigs by feeding them at her own breast. Some 3,000,000 Chinese students have been taken from their studies and sent into the fields. Last week the New China News Agency complained that some had arrived with the idea of becoming "a new kind of temporary peasant," but had lost enthusiasm when they learned they had been assigned to farm work for life...
...Give us the right atmosphere, and we will sow towns and cities in place of theories, and place enterprise and production above politics. We will show you how to achieve in peace a much fuller independence than it is possible to win on the battlefield or across the negotiating table. Without sacrificing the rich spiritual qualities of your ancient traditions, let us show you how to build a better material life. We will carry forward this historical revolution in the way that people everywhere most long for−the way of better living standards of individual liberty and justice...
...sorcerer, who carried the embalmed heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able to fly, and anyone who killed 20 would be able to make himself invisible as well...