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...spiral, lifting the people's standard of living. This "capacity to import" is set largely by the volume of exports of farm products and minerals and the price they bring. Last year Latin Americans turned out plenty of these products, e.g., agricultural output (sugar, bananas, meat, coffee, cacao, wool) was bigger than in 1954, both total and per capita. But the prices of the exports fell so sharply (notably in coffee and cacao) that the total return dropped by nearly...
Backstage. Cops ease Hampton into dressing room. "And now cool off, father," says one, in Dutch. Hampton stunned. "What did I do? Arrested for jazzing," he moans. "Call the ambassador!" Tears off shirt. Washes. Puts on green wool shirt. Doesn't want catch cold. After 45 minutes go by, has cooled off. Police let him out. Band and Hampton drop into bus, churn off to Schiphol Airport and fly off. Real gone...
...other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton's 17%) and nylon leads in dress-length slips...
Poised and confident as she had been at Cortina, Tenley skated out to repeat her Olympic routine. In her gold wool jersey, she danced across the ice to the music of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Satisfied with her performance, she said: "If that doesn...
Record Jackpots. Even in his personal appearance, he violates the rules. His fingernails often need cleaning. His iron-grey hair is as wild as a wad of steel wool. He has an instinct for rumpledness, and only the crafty vigilance of his wife keeps a reasonably presentable crease in his trousers. Nearly everything about Frank John Lausche that meets the unaccustomed eye seems politically wrong, and, to hear them talk, nearly everybody in Ohio is against him. Everybody, that is, except the voters...