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...seamen's strike, the government reported, had cost Britain $137 million in gold and dollar reserves during June alone. That meant a four-month drop in reserves of $372 million, forcing London to call on a $750 million line of credit it has with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...based on the U.S.'s last significant inflationary period-1957-59-and for April, as it had in the three previous months, it showed an increase. This time the index was up by 3.5%, to a level of 112.5, meaning that last month it required $112.50 to buy what a consumer was able to purchase for $100 during the base period. When added to the January-March increases, it represented the sharpest four-month hike in the cost of living in the last 15 years...
After his four-month exploration, Twain forever yearned to return to Hawaii. In 1881, he wrote to a Hawaiian friend that "if the house would only burn down, we would pack up the cubs and fly to the isles of the blest, and shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom...
...perennial problems is the ruin of its roads during the four-month rainy season. During this period from May to August the rain becomes a way of life, often falling continuously for several days. Fishing becomes sporadic, and all but indoor workers are forced to sit and do little but watch the steady downpour turn the sand and dirt roads into rivers of mud which settle in low spots and are churned into black muck by traffic...
...penal codes that almost everything is against the law. Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in Durban agreed. After a four-month trial, Magistrate M. E. Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense documents, arrested five defense witnesses-including...