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...dawn on New Year's Day 1959, when the long-planned European Common Market finally begins to forge France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations into a single economic unit. Last week, in dramatic preparation for the new era, ten European nations carried out at one fell swoop the most far-reaching international currency reform since World...
...came when a secret service agent managed to pry out of a Swiss bank the name of an official who regularly commutes to Spain to see his clients. Early this month the official was arrested while on one of his trips, and the police soon had enough information to swoop down upon the office of a notary public in Barcelona. There they found a list of 1,363 names, each accompanied by a secret account number...
...first time since 1931. The buying pressure got so great that last week A.T.&T. made more shares available. President Frederick R. Kappel announced a three-for-one split, first in the company's history, thus in one swoop will add better than 140 million shares to the market. To top it off, the dividend was boosted...
...chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen in the north, who used to swoop down on their villages and carry off their sons and daughters for sale as slaves in the marts of the Middle East. The north, in turn, is beset by factionalism among its Moslem religious leaders...
...agrees that the winds that swoop across the tennis courts are unfortunate, but the organization will not agree to erect any barrier to the rampant winds. It seems only fair that the dauntless group which braves the winds to stand up the courts also be given a chance to play the game. If trees cannot survive in the miserable soil of Soldiers Field, then a wooden fence comparable to those surrounding the better protected football fields would be in order...