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...auction rooms of Melbourne, Australia last week, wool prices tumbled from $566 a bale to $466, the sharpest break in history. Reason: U.S. buyers had pulled out of the market in an attempt to force prices down. They were taking their cue from U.S. consumers at home, who were also staging something like a buyers' strike. Department-store sales for the week ended March 31 slumped 14% below the corresponding week last year (two weeks before Easter). Business inventories in February piled up to a record $65 billion...
...world raised its voice in such a thunderous defense of press freedom itself. From Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune to the global-minded New York Times, from Brazil's Correio da Manhá to Belgium's Catholic La Libre Belgique, editors drove their sharpest phrases into the tough hide of Argentina's Juan Perón last week for his suppression of La Prensa (TIME...
...that time, he became one of America's most brilliant journalists, sharpest wits and sourest cynics. His quarry was "conglomerate man . . . a tangled wad of rattlesnakes thawing and reeking in the Spring sunlight." Purdue University's Paul Fatout has uncoiled the tangled temperament of Cynic Bierce in a lively and readable new biography...
...Labor pacifist felt his conscience troubled in voting against the Conservative motion of censure. In his fourth attempt this year to bring down the government, Churchill suffered his sharpest rebuff. The Laborites won the vote...
...Sharpest disagreement came from Dr. Frank G. Dickinson, A.M.A. economist, who said: "As a result of present trends we are more likely to have a surplus of physicians in the 1960s." Doctors, he said, are "more productive...