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...summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter-to-be off to school in Switzerland and, no doubt, tack chintz up all over pop's adobe ranch house. After some wonderfully Balkan sabotage, the errant parents are lured back together...
...Prime Minister, looked with considerable gloom at a crucial aspect of the African economy. "Let's face it," he said, "as an investment, Africa stinks." Reporting to his stockholders recently, a sober London businessman who presides over the biggest foreign enterprise in Africa took a more optimistic tack. "The African outlook," said Unilever Chairman George J. Cole, "is less dark than one might think...
...start of the crucial last race, the Crimson was first (18), with Navy and the Coast Guard tied one point behind. More than a minute late at the start, the varsity barreled over the line on a port tack, catching but falling to cover the Navy boat...
...came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces prepared to tack their anti-nuclear declarations to the Ministry door, the police talked them into using tape instead...
Last week Nkrumah changed his tack, decided that necessity is sometimes the mother of investment. To calm the fears of potential investors and save the miners' jobs, he offered to buy the stock in five marginal mines for $14.7 million, almost twice its value on the London Stock Exchange, presumably to make certain that the offer would be accepted. Within 24 hours, the value of the stocks jumped over 100%. The relieved companies hailed the offer as a uniquely civilized way to nationalize industry, were certain that their 40,000 stockholders would grab the offer...