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...million monthly and receipts down to $9,000,000, Castro has turned to the printing presses. Money in circulation has doubled in 22 months of Castro. The peso, once worth $1, is down to 28? on the realistic black market, and Cubans with savings are on a buying spree to convert their depreciating currency to furniture, jewels, paintings, anything of value. They wonder, though, how long the government will allow them that freedom...
...phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil service system...
...spree was record-breaking enough to move even Olympic Coach Larry Snyder to laconic optimism when he contemplated the coming battle in Rome. Said he: "I'd say we were ready...
Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: The summer-long sailor spree, Hit the Deck, with Gene Nelson, Jane Kean, Betty Ann Grove, Jules Munshin...
Hausmusik. The most popular groups at both festivals bore nostalgic. New Orleans-styled names. The winning band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care...