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Rough Road. Despite the rebound, Britain's economy faces a rough road this summer. British tourists will soon begin their annual exodus abroad, cut ting into Britain's reserves as they eat and drink their way across the Conti nent. A bigger worry to Britain's money managers, however, is the extent to which the country's reserves will be drained by its staunchest foreign allies in the monetary battles-the nations of the sterling area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Sterling Signs: Good & Bad | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

Quiney House finished fifth with a 7-9 record. But their 'B' team made up for this by ting Leverett for first place. The 'B' team seemed to have more hustle than the 'a', though the 'A' team had such strong players as Frank Ulcickas and Dave Losk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Basketball Team Places First; Eliot Second | 3/16/1965 | See Source »

...issue seemed less in doubt. Chiang was made Minister of National Defense, a post for which he has long been preparing as Deputy Minister. In other shifts, the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education were handed to two of his firmest allies, Cambridge-educated scientist-economist Li Kuo-ting and Yen Chen-hsing, a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. The older men they replaced were known to have leaned more toward Chen Cheng. To most observers, Little Chiang's new job was tantamount to his being named heir apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Formosa: Heir Apparent | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu Sea. Daughters of wealthy Manila socialites sport names like "Ting-Ting" and take ballet lessons, while at an annual festival at Obando, childless women perform a rhythmic fertility dance coaxing the saints to help them conceive. Polo is played in Manila, but headhunting is occasionally still the game in the wild, distant mountains of northern Luzon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Call on The Princess | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...most tested and complex chem ical substances ever created. Porous, scuff-resistant, water-repellent, shape-retaining - the properties are an ad writ er's dream - it is basically a combina tion of polyester and polyurethane made into sheets resembling leather by an incredibly intricate process. Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchandising: The Synthetic Shoe-In | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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