Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rice is still rationed, and beggars, though forbidden by law, swarm the streets. The dong has sunk so low-7,000 to the dollar-that it may well be the worst currency in the world. Even sister Communist countries refuse to accept it, and North Viet Nam's trade with them is through barter. Last week at long last, Minister Le, the Red who could write his budgets only in red ink, got the sack...
...temperature, only 6° variation between summer and winter) alone had not melted the hotelmen; they had studied Puerto Rico's tourist prospects. In eleven years tourism has jumped sixfold to become Puerto Rico's third industry, with a $31 million annual volume -more than the tourist trade of all the South American countries combined...
...idea of the meeting was helped along by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Robert C. Hill, a friend of both men. Johnson is an increasingly ardent booster of U.S.-Latin American trade; as a Texan, he is well aware of the problems just south of the Rio Grande. López Mateos generally favors U.S. development capital for Mexico...
...simple formula: "Children are so open, it's easy to see what's in their minds. If I push a button, I get a response.'' Shari gets her best responses with four hand puppets-named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink), and on the show she trots...
...foreigners, they are plagued by spies and boredom. As one character sums it up: "Too many ruddy parties. Too many wives-too much nattering over canasta, coffee and so on . . ." What is worse, there is "hanky-panky with the bag," i.e., polite smuggling under diplomatic cover and black-market trade in PX items. This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that she could make her way through the simpler...