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...completed shield, never adopted officially in those early days, was forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Meanwhile, Christo et Ecclenas, another motto suggested in the seventeenth century, gained a wide following...
Died. (Michael) Maximilian, 58, Manhattan furrier who built up a $3,500,000-a-year business designing high-styled, high-priced mink and sable coats for women of wealth and fashion (Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Doris Duke, et al.); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...broke a long deadlock between the U.S. and Bolivia's revolutionary government. Ever since the RFC stopped buying tin in quantity in 1951 because it thought the price (up from around 80? to $2 a Ib.) was exorbitant, Bolivia has suffered severe economic cramps (TIME, May 5, 1952 et seq.). Negotiations with the U.S. for a new, long-term contract were not helped when Bolivia nationalized its tin mines and offered to pay off investors, many of them in the U.S., at only one-third of the value of the tin companies...
...around the world (TIME, Jan. 19). Onassis has had six tankers, five Victory ships and one Liberty taken over. The group of corporations that ex-Congressman Joe Casey and Newbold Morris helped set up, and that touched off a congressional investigation of all the sales (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.) have had five ships seized...
...endless ferryboat ride" was over. Last week, after 296 round trips, Michael Patrick O'Brien, the "stateless Irishman" who had been forced to ride the Hong Kong-Macao ferry continuously since Sept. 18, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), was whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where...