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BECAUSE of a widening trade gap with the rest of the world, Turks fear the lira may be devalued. The government had hoped the gap would be filled by bigger wheat exports, but price-supported Turkish wheat is too expensive for the world market. In Istanbul's black market, the lira, officially pegged at 2.82 to the dollar, was down to 5.50 last week...
...only council member to sit in on presidential conferences. An "Advisory Board on Economic Growth and Stability," composed of top members of Government departments (e.g., Commerce, Labor, Agriculture), will be set up to draw plans for combating any recession and to formulate long-range economic policy. To bridge the gap between the planners and the President, Ike's own economic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, an ex-McGraw-Hill editor, will sit in on Advisory Board meetings...
Agriculture: "Our agricultural exports last year were so low and our agricultural imports so high that we were able to cover only 53% of these imports by exports . . . There is a frightening gap between French agricultural prices and those of most European countries . . . We rank tenth in wheat yield per acre...
...movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns threatened his head, spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride...
Down the stretch they pounded, with Jamie K. closing the gap under a whipping ride. A furlong from home, the Dancer, who races best when he's behind, began to lag. Guerin, for the second time in the Dancer's career, went to the whip for three smart whacks. The whacks were enough. Under the finish wire it was the Dancer by a neck. The time: 1:57 4/5, sixth fastest in the 77-year history of the Preakness...