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...squalid shacks surrounding Bogota and Cartagena and have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns...
...boosted its rates for margin loans from 6½% to 6¾% for small investors and from 5¾% to 6% for big ones. Most important, from Wall Street's viewpoint, tight money has made bonds more attractive than at any time since 1921. Many a $1,000-par medium-grade corporate bond is selling close to $900 and yielding about 6% ; some tax-free municipal bonds pay interest of 4%, which is as good as an 8% stock dividend return to an investor in a high-tax bracket. The current struggle in Wall Street's market...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...
Wilson cut them dead. "If you search the hearts of some of those who par take in these campaigns," he said, "you will find not 'peace in Viet Nam' but 'victory in Viet Nam.' This means a continuation of the fighting until their side has won." From the backbenches, leftists were jumping up trying to get the floor, but Wilson slashed...
Gloves vanish off radiators, goggles disappear from snack-bar counters, boots are bootlegged before they have dried out, lift passes are torn right off par kas. Poles are stolen so often that skiers drag them to restaurants and rest rooms, hide them under the bed at night...