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...from it would impress financiers around the world. After two months of investigating the Milanese economy, Dillon, Read approved the loan at a 1% lower interest rate than Milan could have got in Italy. "They'll soon be standing in line to lend us money," crowed the triumphant Bassetti-and he was right. Last week the line was growing, with British and Swiss bankers at its head...
...Bolivia. Before Bolivia's 1952 revolution, led by Paz Estenssoro, the tin mines produced the ore equivalent of about 30,000 tons of tin a year, accounted for the greater part of the nation's foreign exchange. Within a few years after the triumphant revolution nationalized the mines, production and efficiency sank to the point where the mines ceased to be profitable. In recent years, they have produced only about 17,000 tons of tin a year, have operated at an average an nual deficit...
This summer Stratford boasts a production that any Shakespeare theater in the world might prize - a good company with a triumphant King Lear, played by Veteran Character Actor Morris Carnovsky. Fact is, Carnovsky's Lear is such a popular and critical triumph that last week Stratford canceled two performances of Henry V and one each of Comedy of Errors and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra to give Lear a longer...
Arriving in Bonn just 13 days after President Kennedy's triumphant visit, Charles de Gaulle made no effort to enter a popularity contest. Both French and Germans legitimately emphasized that the two-day trip was only a "work ing visit" as stipulated by the brand-new Franco-German Friendship Treaty. As far as protocol and the public were concerned, it was even a kind of unvisit -no parades, no crowds, none of the pageantry so dear to the heart of De Gaulle...
...easy. What he is after instead is a blush. And a special kind of blush at that. No rosiness such as some blunt, simple-minded fellow might force to her cheeks. "No," writes Cazotte to his patroness, "her blood is to rise, in pride and amour-propre ... in full, triumphant consent to her own perdition." A creature of honor, she will be destroyed, though outwardly intact, by inner recognition that she has desired her own dishonor...