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Irreparable Consequences. Lolli's subsequent resignation and Longo's determination to leave with him turn the top management of the Banco del Lavoro into a lame-duck administration and hobble its operations. "We can do absolutely nothing about planning even six months from now," complains one bank official. Even some politicians resent the dumping of Lolli, an expert on international monetary matters whose views on the gold flow have been sought by the U.S. Treasury and Congress. The sequence of events that led to the Longo-Lolli resignations, said an editorial in the left-of-center Republican Party...
...over the walls." Back home after the war, she enrolled in a Los Angeles cooking school to prepare for her marriage-with disastrous results: her bearnaise sauce congealed because she used lard instead of butter; her calves' brains in red wine fell apart; her well-larded wild duck set the oven on fire-she had completely forgotten to put it in a pan. Says Husband Paul gallantly: "I was willing to put up with that awful cooking to get Julia," but he still shudders at the memory...
...Democrats walked out in protest against his decision to raise taxes. Neither his friends nor enemies within the party wanted to leave the task of government building to the man who clearly had no future left. All that now remained for him was to carry on as a lame-duck Chancellor until some one else succeeded in forming a new coalition...
Compressed speech can be used to teach the blind, relay instructions to Air Force pilots, take phone orders and uncover psychological problems-all without sounding like Donald Duck...
...equipment, H. Leslie Cramer seems more the mad scientist than the Ed School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...