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Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week???not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...
Because the Naval Conference stood adjourned last week???while France chose a new cabinet (see p. 24), while Dino Grandi was cheered in Rome as he reported on the Conference to Benito Mussolini; and while Japanese voted to keep their old cabinet (see col. 1)?the only naval decision of international importance was made at Washington by President Herbert Hoover...
...oldest Parliament in the world sat up all one night last week???that is from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m., for at this time of year two-thirds of the 24 hours is night in Iceland...
Publicity has apparently done the boy no harm. Simply, with great poise, he came on the stage last week???a tiny picture child in his Lord Fauntleroy suit, white socks, ankle-ties. Carefully he sounded his strings, began Vieuxtemps' Fantasia Appassionata, followed with Mozart's A Major Concerto, Paganini's D Major and a concluding short group. Not only does Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula...
...Forty billion was the round number of francs in the gold reserve of the Bank of France last week???record for all time ?equivalent...