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...private investment in Western Europe rose by 36% during the first nine months of 1960, new U.S. private investment* in Latin America for all of 1960 is estimated at less than half of what the U.S. invested during 1959, only about one-sixth of what it ventured in the peak year of 1957 (see chart...
...desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every black rally. Fiery Tom Mboya campaigned in a sports shirt emblazoned with Kenyatta's image. As if things were not tense enough, it was the peak of the dry season, when the air is hot, dusty and stilla time when tempers are short. The army canceled all leave for the troops, and heavily armed riot police set up tents in Nairobi's city park...
...Price has never stinted the training, still works hard with her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, even takes phonograph records along on her tours to study other singers' versions of a role during the long hours in hotel rooms. Like many other singers, she did not really reach her peak until she passed 30, has developed remarkably in style and power during the last three or four years. Says Teacher Kimball: "It is not lessons that have done it. It's her life-that solid, secure feeling she gained from the people around her who love her and help...
...discussion of Brecht must actually concern itself with the practicing playwright, and I will attempt to discuss The Caucasian Chalk Circle in relation to Brecht's broader accomplishment. This play enjoyed a successful run at the University last fall, and in the volume under discussion, represents to Bentley a peak of the author's accomplishment...
Perhaps the most encouraging fact is that the boys are all improving steadily. There is not one case of a swimmer who has hit his peak in high school--as did Yale's Jim Loofbourrow--and then continued to swim the same times all through college...