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...gentle evening ebb tide, put nearly four miles of water behind him in two hours. For once, the wind lay still and a gentle swell replaced the usual nasty chop. The water temperature was 48°. While a schooner scouted a mile ahead for friendly currents, the cruiser King Bacardi stayed with him. Once each hour, as Thomas rested, his handlers fed him orange juice through a plastic tube, gave him cigarettes to puff...
...clock Thomas was safely past Race Rocks, usually a tidal trap but now beneficently calm. At 1 o'clock he shouted: "It sure is cold." A few minutes later: "How'm I doin'? I want the truth now." Replied a voice from the King Bacardi: "You've caught 1½ miles in the last 20 minutes." A little later Thomas called out: "You fellas got nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax...
...BACARDI CUBA LIBRE HAS LESS CALORIES THAN A LAMB CHOP. In Los Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...
...best Finance Minister Cuba ever had resigned last week. José ("Pepin") Bosch, 54, Lehigh-educated millionaire businessman (Bacardi rum and Hatuey beer), had entered the cabinet of President Carlos Prio, his old friend from revolutionary days, in order to help the government out of the fiscal red. He did the job in 14 prodigious months...
...quizzed him in practically every field of government finance, sometimes till 3 in the morning. A fortnight ago they summoned him for more heckling on his plan for reorganizing a rundown government workers' retirement fund. Bosch testily told them he had a previous engagement, went off to a Bacardi board meeting at which he was elected company president...