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Rojas made good, or at least made a good try, on all the dictated measures. To get the trade debt paid, he fired the unlucky Minister of Finance who had sanctioned excessive military purchases, and sent into the job a bright young banker named Luis Morales Gomez. In an earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Chairman of the Board | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

What makes the latest edition, bound tastefully in a pleasing combination of gray and yellow, particularly delightful is the company's apparent concern (as expressed in the Preface) for our knowledge in how to dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several...

Author: By Gavin R.w.scott, | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

The weather had been gloomy for weeks, but for the games it kindly brightened. From the opening shot of a starter's gun, they got off to a crowd-pleasing start, and Olympic records fell like eucalyptus leaves. And, scorekeeping or no, it quickly became a suspenseful duel between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster, Higher, Farther | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

"And how beautiful the look of her face . . . And how fine is the hair of her head, how fair indeed are her eyes and how pleasing her nose and all the radiance of her face . . . How beautiful her breast and how lovely all her whiteness. Her arms goodly to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beauty of Sarah | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

As Old Alex' backfield coach in the early 19303, Dodd taught the Yellow Jackets a hipper-dipper type of crowd-pleasing ball that he kept right on polishing after he took over from his ailing boss in 1945. Tech backs threw the ball around with gay abandon-forward passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Happy Coach | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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