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...votes, will take over a bankrupt country on Aug. 6. Bolivia has no treasury reserves, is almost wholly dependent on the U.S., whose $150 million subsidy has kept the country going for the past seven years. Per capita annual income has fallen 10% (to $60) since 1956; the tin mines that Paz Estenssoro nationalized in 1952 are now losing Bolivia $9,000,000 a year, cannot fill their quotas under the inter national tin agreement even though they employ more men than ever. In his victory statement Paz Estenssoro called for "revolutionary order." But his incoming Vice President and revolutionary...
...press release on the event last week, it tactfully announced: "We invite the press to name this new art form for us." The press was at a loss too, for much of the "new art form" is a bewildering jumble of horrors: tortured junk and bric-a-brac, flattened tin cans and old clothes, or simply an old chair with its innards ripped...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...
...sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please God, be considered boring to other people. I am tired of love and love and love. And when I see a play like Suddenly, Last Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I recognize that its chief appeal to those of us in the audience who are not homosexuals is that it offers a touch of 'rebellion' or 'depravity' . . . The philistines at the play used to be moral; now they demand sensationalism at any price...
...shine forth at the Automart. A 1925 T-model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...