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...Bella's biggest problem by far is the economy. This year, he said, will be one "of austerity, of convalescence." To show that he means business, he pushed through a skin-and-bones budget of $564 million, giving some ministries one-tenth of what they had demanded. He also put a $400-a-month ceiling on all government salaries-his own included-and slapped a 100% tax on income above $800 a month. To the ascetic Ben Bella, who lives in a dingy, three-room bachelor flat with a nephew who does all the cooking and cleaning, that seems...
After the first four calves, only one-tenth of a second separated the two sweating cowboys. Then Altizer's fifth calf fell when it was lassoed. Roping rules require that a calf be brought up to its feet again and thrown by hand. It took Altizer 21.5 sec. to do the job. Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious...
...same decade, the Afro-Asian group's births soared from 32% to 60%. The non-Jewish population is now growing fastest of all, with a fantastic rate of increase of 40 per 1,000 (v. a world average of 18). Arabs and Druzes, who represent only one-tenth of Israel's 2,200,000 people, produced one-fifth of all babies born there last year...
...that Wall Street's gyrations produced only minor ripples. And in South Africa, rigid government currency controls have so cut off the local financial community from the rest of the world that the Rand Daily Mail index shrugged off Blue Monday with a drop of only one-tenth of a point. Mused one Joburg broker: "There might be something to isolation after...
...incantation 'I am George Emlyn Williams and . . .' I was lying with my head on my fist on morning grass, dry of dew and warm with the first heat of the year. Spring smells and earth feelings crept into my seven-year-old body; nine-tenths innocent, one-tenth conscient. it responded. I rolled one cheek up till it closed an eye, and squinted down at the sunlit village...