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...democratically lodged all 130 guests at Amsterdam's plush Amstel Hotel instead of scattering them through her own draughty palaces. (Hotel bill: $7,000.) She showed equal sense when it turned out that a royal expedition to the famed Keukenhof tulip fields would have to buck traffic jams swollen by a European soccer cup final in Amsterdam. Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders looked for all the world like Greyhound passengers rattling through Kansas. The experience was so novel...
...million. But few steel companies came even within shouting distance of their profits in first-quarter 1960, when steel users bought avidly in the wake of a 116-day strike. And steelmen cautioned that their earnings will surely lag during the current quarter as their customers use up swollen inventories...
Ajar Door. Speaking in the Legislative Council last week. Colonial Secretary Claude Burgess said Hong Kong's 3,250,000 population (a density of 8,200 per sq. mi.) was "now dangerously swollen'' and required a restrictive immigration policy to maintain the present standard of living. In sum. the speech suggested that Hong Kong will get tougher on the refugees but will continue to leave the door slightly ajar. One telling point made by Burgess: the refugee problem is one that "no country in the world is in practice willing to share with us." Over the past...
...when he lost the welterweight title to Griffith in a 13-round knockout, it took his handlers several minutes to get him in condition to leave the ring. In a rematch last July, Paret regained the championship with an unpopular 15-round decision; at the end, his eyes were swollen shut and blood was streaming from his mouth. Then, stepping out of his class, Paret took on free-swinging Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer last December...
There is plenty of capital to spend: the cash reserves of U.S. business have grown about $3 billion in the past year, interest rates are easy, and the reserves of banks have swollen since savings rates were raised from 3% to 4% this year. But capital spending for the year is expected to rise only to $37.2 billion, which is just a shade above the 1957 peak...