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Trujillo's turnabout was a nose-thumbing answer to the U.S. Government and the Roman Catholic Church, which have been pressing him to democratize his regime (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). In effect, Trujillo said to each: If it is democracy you want, let us start by restoring the rights of a group you dislike...
...decade's growth would not be evident immediately. Said A. Moyer Kulp, vice president of the Wellington Fund, second biggest U.S. mutual fund: "The market has been too impatient. Men's minds just got things soaring too soon." Seldom in Wall Street's history had the turnabout from giddy optimism to pessimism been so abrupt...
...Turnabout. White Wednesday was a good day for Ezra Taft Benson, who has had many bad days in the past seven years (and will doubtless have plenty of them in the year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring...
This was a complete turnabout from the previous Soviet position in negotiations for a nuclear test ban being carried on here by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union...
...light cruiser, and three destroyers. But Sprague lost two destroyers, a destroyer escort, one baby flattop (another, the St. Lo, was sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse. Then came an amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait. Said Admiral Clifton Sprague later: "The failure of the enemy ... to completely wipe out this task unit can be attributed to our successful smoke screen, our torpedo counterattack...