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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...trouble is that Tshombe's relenting solves no problems except a relatively minor one that he himself managed to raise. The older questions: the hesitant, retreating shadow of colonialism, the constant Soviet imputations of imperialism, the power of the nationalist revolution, the difficulty of development, the danger of subversion, remain, refusing to be scared away even by an unusually tough Secretary-General...
Southern Exposure. The aristocracy still produces its rare blooms, such as Henrietta Tiarks, 1957's Debutante of the Year, and young Lady Beatty. But except for the consistently smart Duchess of Kent and the occasional piquancy of Princess Margaret, the royal family itself is too safe and sane to serve as popular fashion plates for Britain's enterprising young women. Instead they have turned to film stars. First, notes the British Harper's Bazaar, there were "the ubiquitous and slightly blurred carbons of Elizabeth Taylor ... Since then, passing through the [Audrey] Hepburn phase, we are now being...
...covering the Los Angeles convention created "ugly chaos where nothing was visible except their own drawn, pale, bleating faces." complained The New Yorker last week. As the sessions wore on, the reporters "became increasingly clownish, aggressive, sarcastic and self-important. The harassment of the politicians reached an obscene pitch...
Since the end of the 1946-47 period, when 100% margin was required (i.e., stock could not be bought on margin at all), the Fed has cut margins four times. Each time the margin changes had little effect on basic market trends except to stimulate short-term rallies and raise volume...
Died. George Rothwell Brown, 80, longtime Washington political correspondent and a Hearst-chain analyst for 30 years, who wrote a front-page column in the Washington Post from 1917 to 1929, covered every national political convention since 1908 except the 1932 Democratic gathering, during which William Randolph Hearst Sr. assigned him to persuade John Nance Garner to yield his votes to F.D.R.; of a stroke; in Chicago...