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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled 12? to 2? per Ib. in the last 30 months. To add to his sugar blues, Castro also faced a desperate shortage of skilled labor to help bring in the crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Sugar Blues | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...much the same problem. He vehemently attacks his lines until the effect is dulled the same way listening to a jackhammer for three hours induces deafness. It is only in the play's magnificent last act when Edmund and James are both drunk that Nagin and Seltzer managed to add warmth to the glaring brightness of their performances...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Just say, 'I don't have to have that. I will just substitute.' " The President had already revealed that he had asked Lady Bird to buy cheaper cuts of meat for the White House. Now he confessed that they had long been planning to add "two little rooms" to their house on the L.B.J. ranch. "But I asked Mrs. Johnson last night to defer those two rooms. That is a little thing, but if everybody does that, it won't get too tight, it won't heat up too much, the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Virtues of Penny Pinching | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Sense of Un-Togetherness. Ecuador's troubles make the rest of Latin America look like a model of stability. No fewer than 15 political parties and factions constantly vie for attention, and jungle, coastal swampland and Andean peaks divide the country into three mutually suspicious regions. To add to the sense of un-togetherness, 1% of the population owns 60% of the land, and in the bleak highlands, where half of the country's 5,000,000 people live in medieval squalor and ignorance, hacienda owners pay their workers as little as 5? a day. The four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador: People, Yes! | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...McCool, Roger Craig, and Ted Davidson. But both Pappas and Baldschun have had their troubles this spring and remain virtually unknown entities as the season opens. Hitting--even in the absence of Robinson--and defense should pose few problems for Heffner. Rookie sensation Tommy Helms, at second base, will add extra punch to the lineup...

Author: By Harry M. Shooshan, | Title: Giants, Tigers to Top Baseball Circuits | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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