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...docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...
...back of the room. "I can sleep up a storm." said one, "especially if it's raining." A man joined them. "Got up about noon," he said. "Went down to Williams Park and read the paper. Went home and took a nap. Ate at the Driftwood-soup, roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes. JellO, coffee for $1.25. Went to prayer meeting. Heard a lecture. Moseyed out here to see who's here...
...court and creditors agreed to receivership on these terms, the company would continue to operate under a state-appointed administrator. There was also some hope that Schlieker KG could avoid receivership entirely by working out a rescue operation through the banks. During the week, the Dresdner Bank arranged to beef up Schlieker's capital base by $1,000,000, and Munich Private Banker Rudolf Münemann, another of Germany's postwar millionaires, hustled up to Hamburg to huddle with Schlieker. Said Schlieker with tears in his eyes, "In the past five days, I have died five deaths...
Argentina, a land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, whose 20 million people are more than 90% European-descended, has been ruled by a puppet President and a military dictatorship for 3½ months. The treasury is about bankrupt, the peso has fallen from 83 to a dollar to as low as 137, the cost of living has risen 42.7% since April, and one of the most powerful of the Peronista unions last week threatened to take over the factories themselves unless they were paid long-overdue wages. Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray is flying...
...Walt Schirra, hundreds held up six fingers for the number of orbits he is to make in the next U.S. space flight. The parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens, 2,000 Ibs. of spareribs, 3,000 lbs. of beef were served up to 6,000 Space Center workers and their families. As the astronauts were given the traditional Texas totems-a ten-gallon sombrero and a gold reserve sheriff's badge-Ohio-born John Glenn got into the spirit of things by greeting people, "Howdy, podnuh...