Cold stare at customs sets American into panic
Louise Cook recounts how a routine Kennedy Airport baggage check turns a confident traveler into a jittery suspect. The system uses color-coded declarations prompting nerves over small purchases and declared items. In the end the inspector clears the traveler despite self doubt.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
NEW York
Kennedy International Airport
France
United States
Christian Dior
Paris
Police urge use of free breath testing kits at New Year's
Albuquerque police propose handing out disposable breath testing packets for New Year's parties. Each kit has a balloon and tube. guests blow into the balloon, breath meets chemically treated crystals that change color to indicate sobriety. Hosts should drive those who fail after blowing up their own balloon.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Pals reunited after 19 years in medical record mixup
In Jackson Mississippi a hospital checkup revealed two former high school friends Eugene Stanely and Charles Stanely were in adjacent rooms. Charles had carried Eugene from a North Korean POW camp after 33 months imprisonment, reuniting 19 years later due to a records mismatch.
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Jackson
Miss
Veterans Administration Hospital
Eugene Stanely
Richton
Charles R. Stanely
Waynesboro
Eugene
Mutual aid during 1971 crisis averts disaster, notes Stuntz
Laurance F. Stuntz compares the 1931 and 1971 financial crises, arguing that rapid mutual support among central banks in 1971 helped avoid currency collapse and mass unemployment. He cites the IMF's active role and New York Fed monograph on central bank cooperation.
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Laurance F. Stuntz
Associated Press
George L. Harrison
Federal Reserve
France
Bank For International Settlement
International Monetary Fund
Montagu Norman
Bank of England
Government buys corn to boost farm prices in Midwest
The Agriculture Department reports a 1.75 million bushel corn purchase on the open market in Iowa Kansas and Nebraska bringing total buys to 4.9 million bushels since the program began two weeks ago. Officials note 19.5 million bushels were tendered this week at prices from 1.12 to 1.27 per bushel. The next purchases will be announced January 4.
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Washington
Midwest
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
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