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Premiers do not thrive in Burundi, a small, landlocked central African nation of 2,750,000. In the three years since it gained independence from Belgium, two heads of government have died at the hands of assassins. Last week a third went down in a volley of bullets...
...scandal and financial burden might have been the downfall of a lesser company, but Amexco has proved that it can thrive despite adversity. Stung into greater efforts by the salad-oil scandal, it used imaginative promotion to boost the volume of its traveler's checks to about $2.5 billion last year, 16% higher than in 1963. Careful weeding of unreliable credit card holders and such innovations as the "Sign & Fly" program, which enables air travelers to fly on credit, lifted the American Express credit card operation out of the red (it lost $10 million between...
...thrive in Manhattan...
...huge laughs on such lines as "Let copulation thrive;" "Ha! Goneril, with a white beard!" (to Gloucester), and "Let me wipe it (my hand) first; it smells of mortality." is difficult to imagine, but Mr. Carnovsky accomplishes it. And he thereby undermines the dignity, stature, and power he works so hard to establish in the early parts of the play and achieves right from Act I, Scene I--which any actor who has tackled the role will tell you is almost unplayable for credibility...
...third of the continent's Protestant population. Typical of these younger churchlets is Argentina's fundamentalist Union of the Assemblies of God, which has grown from 400 to 6,500 since 1948, now has 142 preaching centers scattered throughout the country. Its members are baptized by immersion, thrive on strongly Biblical sermons, give 10% of their substance to help pay for preaching on radio and television while their ministers support themselves with secular jobs...