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...open Cadillac, on the way into Washington, she helped Secretary Dulles into his overcoat. When someone shouted "Zito!" (Greek for long live), Frederika's pretty face lighted up with a smile. During the welcoming ceremonies in front of the District Building, the Queen gravely returned the impudent wink of a reporter. A few minutes later, under the White House porte-cochere, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower hurried down the steps to greet their old friends. "May you find as much pleasure in our house as we did in yours," said Ike, gripping King Paul's hand...
Actually, although many governments forbid such markets, most of them wink at them, even participate in them, for the simple reason that without them much international trade would die. In Paris, for example, right after the Bourse's legal trading closes at 1:15 p.m., the "illegal" currency market opens on the balcony-with a uniformed policeman keeping order. Such markets have been so common in Europe that U.S. tourists took them for granted, exchanged their money on streets with ease. But this summer tourists are finding a big change. Except in France, the money black markets have...
...horrors of a third world war." Replied the President: "You are leaving behind you a heritage of great achievement." ¶ Attended the yearly dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, grinned unfalteringly through a skit burlesquing his golf ("Be thankful he ain't a bowler"), a prolonged wink from Songstress Ethel Merman (I Get a Kick Out of You), a running patter of Comedian Bob Hope. Some Hope-isms: "It is a great pleasure to be here, entertaining our President. Of course, I had to sell all my Paramount stock before I could go on ... We were supposed...
Also from Harvard are the 15 men on the Jaguars, which features varsity player Doug Manchester and Wink Childs, spark-plug of this year's freshman squad. Dunster House also sports a team, starring high-scoring freshman Bill Cleary and Intramural standout Henry Feldman at goal...
...Wallace's farm policy called for killing pigs and plowing under every third row of cotton. The Democrats later switched from a policy of scarcity to one of abundance-and Government buying of surpluses. Charles Brannan, Truman's Secretary of Agriculture, said: "I would never lose a wink of sleep if my policies led me to overproduction of some crops." Brannan had the happy experience of operating largely in the years of almost insatiable markets. World War II, European reconstruction and the Korean war brought abnormal demand. But in a few commodities, the philosophy of expanding production...