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...Buying Spree. The mess is mainly the result of a reckless national buying spree. It began in mid-1954, when high coffee prices earned Colombia a record income. Then coffee prices fell. To curb the spree, the government put its faith in two major controls...
Giveaways, Grab & Greed. Clement bowled alliterative strikes on the Republicans in all alleys. He attacked Ike's haphazard conduct of foreign affairs "while Foster fiddles, fritters, frets and flits." He accused the Administration of "corruption in high places, involving an unprecedented spree of giveaways, grab and greed." He said U.S. agriculture had been "devitaminized by the G.O.P. and Bensonized by Ezra B.," and he called out to the farmer: "Come on home before it's too late. Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...
Varsity track captain Art Siler ended his athletic career with the Crimson on Saturday with a one-man point-getting spree at the IC4A track and field championship at Randall's Island...
...Startling Reversal. With the money in the bank, taxfree, the Cahills went on no wild spending spree. Around $30,000 went for the attorney's fee. Approximately $40,000 went to pay other bills-hospitals, physicians, the welfare departments-and to buy a car and a small piece of property on which the Cahills started building a $14,000 house. Their only nonessential purchases were a cocker spaniel for the kids and a new coat-her first in three years-for Mrs. Cahill. The remaining $20,000 was the Cahills' money to live on during his three years...
...catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...