Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FERNANDO BELAUNDE TERRY, 43, likewise the candidate of a party of his friends, is one of Peru's top architects. He is running on what, for Peru, is a hot-eyed liberal platform: land reform, unfettered trade unionism and public housing...
...kicking in the tenth to hold on to his light-heavyweight title. This business settled, Archie sat back to await the outcome of a fight he found more interesting: the twelve-round battle in Manhattan between Floyd Patterson and Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. As Archie-and most of the boxing trade-figured it, the winner would have to fight him in the fall for the heavyweight title, up for grabs since Rocky Marciano retired last April...
...morbid fear of falling from his high Nielsen rating. In a new book, The Funny Men (Simon & Schuster; $3-95), published this week, TV Comic Steve Allen, who labors to be funny five nights a week on NBC's Tonight, outlines the terrors of his trade and takes a measuring look at 16 of his competitors. Since he began work on the book, one of the 16 (Fred Allen) has died, four others have lost their regular programs, and two more may not be back on the air next season. "People get tired of you a lot quicker...
Actually, few realistic Britons look for any big, immediate boost in Red trade. Though China was once a big market, trade slumped last year to a bare $22.3 million worth of exports, and the Communists have offered little so far either in barter or cash. When a Red delegation arrived in London in 1954, all it had to trade was benzoated (preserved) egg yolks, leopard skins and human hair while demanding locomotives, steel and heavy vehicles. As for cash, Red China's sterling balance is only some $280 million, a figure which would be quickly liquidated by shipments...
Ever since the end of the Korean war, the United Nations' dike against trade with Communist China has grown steadily weaker. Last week the cracks became a chasm. In London the British Foreign Office announced that it would allow all colonial governments to resume shipments of rubber to Red China, and added privately that "we intend to resume trade on as many fronts as possible without allowing China strategic materials it cannot get from Russia." In short order, Malaya issued permission for each concern to sell up to 2,000 tons to the Chinese Communists; Indonesia announced that...