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Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German government into demanding that the 3,000-ton ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed...
...help keep Bolivia's social revolution out of the red-both financial and political-the U.S. has invested $150 million worth of grant aid in support of the government since the 1952 uprising. Through the years the U.S. persistently refrained from handing out cash to the nationalized, immensely inefficient tin mines, even though they provide Bolivia with 67% of its export income. Last week the U.S. was forced to reverse its stand...
...keep the inflation-ridden economy from collapsing, Kubitschek must juggle his debts faster and faster. Caught short of dollars two months ago and faced with a six-month, $87.7 million repayment installment to the Export-Import Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Brazil arranged a six-month payments moratorium-but the next Brazilian ad ministration will have to resume payments. To meet the internal demand for dollars, the Bank of Brazil recently started selling (at a discount) certificates for dollars deliverable within 90 days. The first batch of $80 million must be redeemed in dollars beginning...
After doing his best to keep his hometown troubles out of the papers (he urged newsmen not to cover the school integration story for three days), New Orleans' handsome Mayor de Lesseps ("Chep") Morrison made news himself in Manhat tan. In town to attend a conference of U.S. mayors, in a trice he found himself in the Stork Club and the clinging arms of Perennial Siren Zsa Zsa Gabor. Later, asked what they had talked about, Zsa Zsa seemed surprised at the question. "Of course," she said, "we talked about the problems of the South...
...planters in Britain's steamy Latin American colony of British Guiana, one of life's great irritations has long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel...