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...years ago, Beverly Hills Jeweler Marvin Hime was lucky to unload ten pairs of pierced earrings in a week...
Love Those Mangoes. Sugar is no longer rationed, as it was in 1963. Just about everything else still is-either that, or it appears on a feast-or-famine basis. "Right now," says one resident, "they've got so much corn they can't unload it. They keep saying: 'Eat corn, eat corn.'" Before that, it was eggs, then avocados, then mangoes. "We must find a way to use our mangoes-every single one," pleaded the Communist daily Hoy. Wrote one Cuban to a friend in Miami: "We substitute mangoes for squash, eat fried mangoes, mango...
...usual, De Gaulle pitted his own paramount need to unload France's high-priced farm surpluses against his partners' abiding desire for progress toward political integration. It was a familiar script, and it had always turned out the same way-France's way. Not this time. When French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville threatened Non unless the Common Market extended its community-wide farm-price agreements for five more years, the other members of the Six chorused Non! Non! Non! This time, they demanded, France could have its way on farm prices only by agreeing to major...
...selling, but nobody did much buying, either. The pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies -which account for about one-third of all trading-conspicuously sat on their millions and waited for stocks to fall still lower in hopes of scooping up bargains. At midweek individual investors began to unload; larger numbers of 100-share and 200-share transactions danced across the illuminated ticker tape in the stock exchange...
Argentina's long-suffering citizens are getting fed up with it all. Last week a riot erupted at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport when ground crews refused to unload baggage-including the wheelchair of a 14-year-old paraplegic boy. In another part of town, an enraged 65-year-old pension applicant whipped out a pistol and killed a go-slow clerk when she foisted still another form on him and suggested that he return in a few days; it was the fifth time he had been put off, and each refusal meant a 70-mile round trip from...