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France has stung America with a farce de frappe...
...Argentina. Inflation is ham stringing all Italian industry; Milan's stockmarket last week dropped to a four-year low, and Fiat, stung by anti-inflation government taxes on car pur chases and gasoline, looks for a sizable production drop this year. But Olivetti, whose global sales reached $360 million last year, has been especially hard...
...antimacassar set in Ransom's own home town of Pulaski, Tenn. His topics run to ceremonious family occasions, chivalric legends, brief encounters between might-have-been lovers, small social events, the death of a boy, even the demise of a child's pet hen that has been stung to death...
...Stung by demands that the ailing Prime Minister resign or name a deputy with authority to act as head of the government, Nehru's official family launched a campaign to show that India's evident leadership vacuum does not really exist. Nehru's daughter and chief political troubleshooter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, claimed that her father had "fully recovered" from the stroke he suffered Jan. 7 and that, at 74, "he is much better than he was six months before the illness." Health Minister Sushila Nayar (who was Mahatma Gandhi's physician) said that Nehru...
...wonder is that there are not many more such deaths, for thousands of people are stung every year, some of them severely. In recent weeks, the sting rate got up to 400 or more a day in southeast Florida. Bulldozers buried a mass of man-of-war bodies daily, but so many more came in that some of the most popular beaches had to be closed...