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...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
...charm of the music William Walton composed for the occasion. The camera, always holding the mimes at distant center, steals in a lordly semicircle past the enormous heads of the guilty, the guileless, and the pitilessly watchful; and rising whispers, like leaves in a storm-foreboding wind, underline the shock and horror of this deadly piece of court satire. From there on, the film arches in unbroken grandeur and intensity...
This month U.S. churches were crowded-for weddings. But some June brides might drop their bouquets with shock to hear that the early Christian Fathers regarded marriage as the lesser of two evils...
...favored character. As head of a war plant (Metropolitan Machine Shops, Inc., maker of machine parts and auto jacks), he borrowed $99,970 from the bank, without very close questioning. When Benjamin later confessed to frauds totaling $493,000 (and went to Sing Sing), Title Guarantee expressed shock, but it also gave off embarrassed sighs of relief. Alone among Benjamin's big creditors, Title Guarantee had been repaid in full...
...Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below. In time, Wingate's "S.N.S." grew into Haganah's shock troops, Palmach. But that was after Wingate's day. The British government, which thought him too friendly to the Zionists, recalled him from Palestine...