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...Communists. Gamal Abdel Nasser mortgaged Egypt's one big cash crop -cotton-to pay for Soviet-bloc arms. But in midseason the Soviet bloc suddenly stopped buying, leaving the Egyptians with more than one-third of last year's crop unsold. The desperate Egyptians had to unload the rest at cut-rate prices. When the Egyptians found themselves strapped for hard currencies, their Russian friends let them have some Western currencies last summer-at a 20% premium. Now, with a new cotton crop heading for market, Cairo is at the mercy of its new customers. At one time...
Indifference & Fear. For the most part, rank-and-file Teamsters across the nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and chickens. They drive cabs, deliver flowers, department-store merchandise and groceries, cart off garbage. They are strong and competent. But as Teamsters, they are either uninformed, indifferent or scared...
...have the Southerners discussed the real point and purpose of the bill. This is not a bill to deny jury trial; this is not a bill to invade states' rights; this is not a bill to order the Strategic Air Command to unload on the Confederacy. This is a bill to protect the right to vote and to protect other already established civil rights...
...dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that the time for a change had come...
...television-set makers, who have been plagued by falling sales and big inventories, Admiral Corp. had some more bad news last week. The fourth biggest TV maker, Admiral held a warehouse sale for dealers to unload its 1957 sets at cut-rate prices before its new models come out in mid-June...