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Cuba is unlikely to get much real help from Russia, although it recently signed a $100 million barter agreement to take Cuban sugar in return for machinery, consumer items and technicians. Russia, already the world's biggest sugar producer, is a net exporter of sugar; at best, the Cubans could expect to market one-sixth of their next year's crop to the Soviets. They may find, as Nasser did when he bartered cotton to Russia, that the Communists will dump it elsewhere, depriving them of other markets...
...growing totalitarian atmosphere has been worsening almost since the first day of independence in 1958. "The government and the Assembly are nothing," said Touré last September. "They exist only to implement decisions of the party." Last year Communist agents from abroad flocked in to help with Red barter deals and aid programs, which Touré was happy to accept as an alternative to bankruptcy. Now Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Hungarians and even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild but true story in an appropriately cornball style...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild, but true, story in an appropriately cornball style...
...figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...