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...status suits Governor Muñoz and the island well. Muñoz wants his people to ratify it both for their own protection and as an answer to the Castroites, who ridicule the island as a "perfumed colony" of the U.S. He himself is Commonwealth's most ardent champion: he and his pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party have swept into power in four consecutive general elections, the last time in 1960 with an overwhelming 58% of the total vote. Since then, there has been little to change the voters' sentiments...
Seldom has a company boasted so many suitors in such quick succession as Celotex Corp., a Chicago manufacturer of building supplies. It was his ardent pursuit of Celotex that brought about the downfall of the "boy wonder" financier, Eddy Gilbert (TIME, June 22). No sooner had Gilbert fled to Brazil than a New York building materials firm named the Ruberoid Co. decided to make a try for Celotex. It offered to buy 350,000 Celotex shares at $25 apiece-which was 8¾ above Celotex's lowest price after the Blue Monday skid but 17⅜ below...
...higher education, from what education is and who should have it down to what should be done about campus parking and organized song-fests. The book is controversial--if I may invoke an overused word. And I hope it will have a wide enough circulation to stir up ardent debates hither and yon. Personally, I find little to disagree with; but whether one endorses his conclusions or not, Eble has lined up the main arguments on both sides of each issue without omission and with welcome clarity...
King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that...
...industry today generates some $12 billion in sales a year. If we took advantage of wood chemicals, we could double that- and the materials would be free." Because it forced them to seek new markets, the slump from which they are now emerging has also turned U.S. papermakers into ardent free traders. Boasts William R. Adams, president of St. Regis Paper Co.: "We're one of the few major American industries that can compete with any area of the world - sometimes even at a tariff disadvantage." Last year the industry exported a record 1,200,000 tons of paper...