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...inauguration of a $25 million German industrial fair, he was welcomed as the fiscal wizard who symbolizes West Germany's spectacular economic comeback. Santiago's press gave him the Page One treatment, university professors asked him to lecture, and Chile's much-regulated businessmen applauded till the walls of the Union Club vibrated when he told them: "There is no miracle in German recovery-individual economic liberty has been the secret...
Monkey and the Weight."-And his practical inventions included a plan for simplifying money orders, "a new and better rule for Lawn Tennis," a new form of backgammon, a folder for postage stamps. He was delighted to sit up "till 4 a.m., over a tempting problem sent me from New York, 'to find three equal rational-sided right-angled triangles' ... I found two . . . but could not find three...
...sent his resignation to Scelba, and it seemed likely that Scelba would accept it. Scelba appointed Minister Without Portfolio Raffaele de Caro, a Liberal, to make a full investigation, ordered Montagna's passport lifted, and an investi gation of Montagna's income-tax returns. Montagna, silent up till then, threatened to start talking. "I may cause the end of the world," he pouted...
Finns trudged through swirling snows last week to the polling places, seeking an Eduskunta with enough courage to tackle the country's economic mess. The last parliament had kept right on voting child-welfare allowances and farm subsidies, though the national till was all but empty. It had refused to lower wages, though high costs priced Finland's products out of the world market, causing unemployment and a decline in national income...
...idea what these should be, his numerous suggestions only made the canon more cantankerous. Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting-all passed in review, until the canon blew up. "Not one sixpence will you receive from me," he wrote, "till you come to your senses...