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Stunned Silence. These shifts in opinion set the stage for a moment of supreme irony in Rome: the U.S. wound up suggesting a bigger dollar devaluation than many Europeans had asked for or even wanted. Although he was retreating from positions that he had previously stated with what Europeans considered offensive arrogance, Connally retained the air of a man in charge. Sitting at the head of the table as chairman of the meeting, he told his foreign colleagues that he had full power to negotiate currency values, and asked if they did too. Some did not; French Finance Minister Valery...
...partition came, and what had been Hindu-Moslem hostility was soon converted into Indian-Pakistani hatred. The very next year, the two new countries were at war with each other in the Vale of Kashmir. Even today, Kashmir lies a festering wound between India and Pakistan. Should all-out war come, there is no doubt that the conflict in East Pakistan would quickly be dwarfed by far bigger and bloodier battles in the west largely aimed at control of the fabled valley...
...motorcade wound through the dusty town of Maria Elena in Chile's mountainous north, the Cuban Premier spied a gymnasium housing a basketball court. He ordered the caravan to a screeching halt, recruited a government official, three carabineros and five Chil ean newsmen, then sprang onto the court - combat boots, green fatigues and all - for a pickup game...
Moxie and Mink Oil. Only five years ago, Turner gave up selling sewing machines to poor Southern rural blacks and became a distributor for a small cosmetics concern, but he soon wound up broke. He then got a $5,000 bank loan and started his own cosmetics firm, Koscot Interplanetary Inc., in Orlando, Fla. Even before he had a product, Turner had a small staff out recruiting distributors, who were asked to advance up to $5,000 to get in on the ground floor of a great proposition. Amazingly, the recruiters found people willing to pay. The money began...
...summation. Homans stated that the prosecution had not produced a knife, the weapon Harrison allegedly used to wound Matthews. Homans also attempted to prove to the jury that the prosecution witnesses had contradicted each other in their testimony on the precise time periods of demonstration photographs...