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...never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody sector of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's capital...
With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...
...minimal strings," said a U.S. official. "He's going home with the goodies." In turn, Goulart sought to clear up the bedeviling issue of utility company expropriations by offering fair value for any utility, provided that the company reinvests most of the money in some underdeveloped sector of Brazil's economy...
...identity papers (which had the owners' photographs attached) so that their classmates could "legitimately" cross at the border checkpoint while posing as West Berliners. The ruse was highly successful until the Vopos became suspicious of so many West Berliners in the East, barred residents of the free sector from crossing the border. West Germans, however, at the time still had access to East Berlin and the use of phony identity cards continued much as before...
Which Way Up? Certainly, the cornu-copic U.S. economy could start surging in a hurry. But what sector would lead it upward? Here are some possibilities being talked about by Kennedy's advisers : INVENTORY SPENDING. Walter Heller, chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, figures that the current rate of trade and manufacturing sales would justify a further $3 billion rise in inventories this year. But Heller appears to be ignoring the fact that businessmen are operating with much leaner inventories than in times past. Computers permit them to schedule stocks more closely...