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...cigarette plant. But Russian-dictated "reforms" and Touré's own policies persisted. On Moscow's urging, Touré had divorced Guinea's currency from France's monetary system, flooded the country with new paper francs embellished with his portrait, which were almost valueless outside Guinea. As a result, cattle, coffee and bananas -and U.S. Food for Peace supplies-were smuggled into neighboring countries to be sold for hard currency. Toure also nationalized virtually every business in Guinea, including the once-lucrative diamond mines...
Darker Fears. Always the spirit Charles evokes is melancholy, even among those who respectfully call him by his press-agent nickname-"The Genius." Those who brood over his willingness to sing valueless songs also see with horror in the bravura, spotlight style of his band a hint that he may yet turn out to be a grinning bandleader some day. But other, darker fears call up his past arrests on narcotics charges, his occasional lapses into moments of incoherence, the grotesque contortions that sometimes seize him. Behind his dark glasses, there looms a man in trouble with himself...
...Doriot persisted in searching out promising ventures, fearlessly backed some successful firms-such as Bostons Ionics Inc., whose main business salting water-that were declared valueless by technical experts. Almost alone, ARD. took note of M.I.T. Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff's research into super voltages, put up $200,000 for him to start High Voltage Engineering Corp. in 1946- and has since seen the value of this investment grow to more than $13 million. A.R.D. has raised $19 million from the public distributed $4,500,000 in capital gains to its shareholders, has current assets...
...have no quarrel with Robert M. Myers and his business success in running the Lapeer (Mich.) County Press [Dec. 21], but when you reprinted his uncalled-for remark that the "American rural weekly is valueless, lily-livered and moribund," you did thousands of aggressive community weekly publishers an injustice...
Sunken Millions. To the Indonesians, the continued Dutch occupation of barren, poverty-stricken New Guinea represents the loss of one-sixth of the land area of Indonesia, and, valueless or not, they want it. As for the 700,000 Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea, many of them living deep in impenetrable jungle valleys are unaware that there is either a Netherlands or an Indonesia, much less a dispute. The few educated Papuans seem inclined toward independence but recognize their present inability to stand alone...