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...Francisco, which wants to widen its narrow lead over Los Angeles as the West's No. i seaport, last week pulled a small coup. It became the third U.S. port to establish a "free trade zone" (the others: New York and New Orleans). In the zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent...
Churchill had a better argument for the university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...from Albany tried to do more than that. He wanted to widen the perspective of the men in Washington. Any program of aid to Europe alone was not enough, he said. A successful American strategy in foreign policy must also include aid to China. There must be an end to past contradictions in U.S. policy which had "seen our own Government turn against our wartime Chinese allies and order them, under pain of losing American support, to accept into their Government the very Communists who sought to destroy it." Now, said the Governor: "We have only one choice and that...
Filling in when Clark exits to light a new cigar, the chorus does only a passable job with Herbert's music, mangling the words to widen their smiles. The dancing is fair; the supporting east barely struggles above a mediocre rut; but when Clark reappears, the show comes back to life. Vaudeville will never die so long as Clark and his cigar are smoldering; and in "Sweethearts," both Clark and cigar...
...Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week: "If I have to fall I will fall in front...