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Plentiful Food. Long queues, once the most characteristic street scene in La Paz, have disappeared. Instead of lining up for supplies of subsidized food and then rushing to sell them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free price of bread and meat is about one-third the old black rate. Farm production will be up 59% by the end of the year. The boliviano has come down from its crazy peak of 13,000 to the dollar, and has been averaging...
...Duluth-Cleveland voyage from seven days to five, cut lake shipping costs by 15? to 18? a ton, save shippers $10 million a year. It will also unlock the lakes for large-scale foreign trade. Some shippingmen predict that by 1965 Great Lakes-overseas traffic will go up tenfold, and the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. optimistically forecasts that the seaway will pass 52 minion tons of cargo a year...
...Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children is no more dangerous than the radioactive dosage a person would receive from cosmic rays if he moved "from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred...
Before the Russians came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...
...long way to success. Revival of widespread interest in Redon's work has come about only in the last decade. In the last four years prices for his pastels and oils have increased tenfold. This week in Paris, France's official Orangerie Museum is exhibiting 205 of his works, the first major Redon show in 30 years...