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...mayor, Quadros inherited a city with exactly $2,212 in the bank, $12.5 million in unpaid bills, and a budget deficit of $6,000,000 for 1952. He fired 10% of all functionaries, cut nonessential spending, ended political payoffs, started 200 corruption investigations. In his outer office he hung a sign: "Sr. Jânio Quadros does not provide city jobs. Please don't waste your time and his insisting." He sold off the city fleet of 40 limousines (São Paulo's morticians snapped them up), even banned coffee breaks-in the coffee capital...
...rule by terror alone. He had a natural talent for autocratic management. Starting with the 1930 hurricane that destroyed 70% of the capital, Trujillo imposed a rigidly controlled economy that rebuilt the city in short order. When he took power, the republic was burdened by a $20 million unpaid-and unpayable-debt. Trujillo decreed such heavy taxes that the debt was paid off in 17 years...
Through it all, Tony kept a stiff, smiling upper lip. His popularity took a turn for the better when he took an unpaid, five-day-a-week job in a design center, despite his rather nebulous assignment: studying methods of consumer product testing. But the real breakthrough came when Buckingham Palace let Tony present the prizes in a schoolboy photographic contest in London. Delighted to talk on a subject he knew intimately, Tony wrote his own speech, delivered it well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent...
...best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board as the 5-2 betting favorite...
...Assembly's Budgetary Committee, U.S. Delegate Philip Klutznick sharply reminded the delegates that the U.N. would be stone broke "in a matter of weeks." If the nations do not pay up. he added, "this will be looked on as an era in which raised voices and small bills unpaid marked the beginning of the disintegration of another of mankind's great dreams." Hence, the U.S. would chip in "a sizable voluntary contribution" beyond its normal 32.51% quota, just as it had done in 1960, when Washington picked up 50% of the entire Congo check. Probable total U.S. contribution...