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...Welcome Vacuum. The negotiators found a golden opportunity before them. Naguib was determined to industrialize Egypt. He didn't want to deal with the British; moreover, the spectacular decline in Egypt's foreign trade with Britain and the U.S. has stripped him of dollars and pounds sterling. Naguib's men laid it on the line: they wanted Bonn to advance $600 million in long-term credits repayable in Egyptian cotton. This would be spent to 1) build a new, $300,000,000 hydroelectric irrigation dam that would nearly double Egypt's cultivatable area and multiply...
...German negotiators cautiously surveyed the trade vacuum and prepared to move in. They could not give Naguib all that he asked for, but the Egyptians obviously expected to settle for less. Whatever the final bargain, West Germany may well be on the way to becoming the leading foreign power in Egypt's economy...
...Melancholy anniversary!" commented the conservative newspaper 0 Estado de São Paulo. "After two years Senhor Getulio Vargas still struggles in a vacuum of perplexing inactivity." Said Rio's Correio da Manhã, "The hour is ripe for sinister demagogues...
...studied the psychosomatic relationships between the emotions and the stomach. But always the doctors had to deal with a patient whose feelings (and stomach reactions) were his and his alone, the product of all his heredity and environment. To find out how the stomach would work in an emotional vacuum-and thus establish bench marks for surveying emotional effects-they needed a patient with a hole in his stomach and no emotions. But where to find...
Transist-Ear. Minneapolis' Maico Co. will begin sale next month of a hearing aid the size of a cigarette lighter which weighs only 2½ oz. Three germanium transistors take the place of vacuum tubes for amplification, and in place of conventional batteries, Transist-Ear's power comes from a mercury capsule the size of a dime, good for 75 hrs. Replacement capsules cost about 25?. Price: around...