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...tall man stopped at the MTA entrance to buy a newspaper. "Don't get me involved. I'm a public official," he said. "This has nothing to do with America," remarked a workman. "It has to do with the Eisenhower Administration...
...black shoes and sports shirts stop flirting with their plump, pinch-waisted girl friends as the loudspeakers switch from the new music of the pachanga to news: "Old Mr. Herter is preparing ships and men at the Key West naval station to invade Cuba." At the Esso station, a workman paints the pumps green as a reminder that the revolution has changed Cuba so much that even the gasoline, refined from Russian oil, is different...
Queasy Street. In Grand Haven, Mich., a sewer-project workman on a quiet suburban street reported on the job at 7 a.m., yelled a cheery "Good morning, everybody." then opened up with his air hammer...
...many new jobs opened up that any skilled workman among the Moslems could pick and choose from two or three openings. The Algerian cook who once counted herself lucky to get $20 a month started asking-and getting-$70 a month. Some 300,000 refugees poured into Algiers to escape the rebel F.L.N.; the city's growing economy absorbed them without missing a beat. In the spending splurge, rents went up-400% in some parts of the city. Simca auto sales jumped from 3,000 in 1954 to 14,500 in 1959, will hit 20,000 in 1960. Monoprix...
...York Stock Exchange, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and for many years chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. If the present practices are confusing to you, the most expert man in the country, what must they be to the average workman?" Martin agreed with the purpose of the bill, but said that it was beyond the scope of the Federal Reserve System to enforce it, as the bill provides. He recommended that it be redrafted as a criminal statute to be policed by federal regulatory agencies...