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Tooting into Paris after a two-month jam session in Africa as good-will ambassador for Pepsi-Cola and the State Department, leather-lunged Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald that the Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There...
...Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with children...
...After a two-month rise that temporarily heartened businessmen, manufacturers' orders turned about and dropped 4% in October, sending the backlog of unfilled orders to the lowest point in two years. Manufacturers' sales fell 1% in October for their sixth monthly decline in a row. What was even more disturbing to economists-and the chief cause of the orders slump-was that businessmen are still living off their inventories instead of reordering. In October, business inventories fell $400 million from September for their fourth straight decline...
Last week, after a two-month trial during which Ogilvie proved that Accardo's beer-selling sinecure was merely a front for his gambling and labor-racketeering interests, a federal court jury convicted him on three counts of tax evasion. Tough Tony Accardo, the man who never went to jail, faces a sentence of up to nine years in prison and $15,000 in fines...
...served by 1,000 flights a month, is 14 hours from San Francisco, only 18½ hours over the North Pole from New York City. The Far East used to be the domain of the reckless adventurer or the traveler who could afford the money and leisure for a two-month cruise. Now Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong are as accessible as Paris, Rome or London. Ten thousand tourists a week pour into the Orient, and many, traveling economy class, pay as little as $1,500 round trip...