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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attended by such big opinion makers as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stu Symington and Texas' Lyndon Johnson. He had former Disarmament Aide Harold Stassen over for a private lunch at the Russian embassy. Mikoyan even ran the spiel again for the benefit of top labor union bosses James Carey and Walter Reuther (absent: A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s hornyhanded President George Meany, who said he would "not meet Mikoyan any time or place...
...before any perfect peace set in, the rebels were determined to allow themselves a wave of revenge against the conquered foe. Last week some 28 lesser Batista officials, left behind when the top dogs fled, were convicted in kangaroo courts and shot; another nine were executed without benefit of trial at all. Typical victims: Santiago's Maritime Police Chief Alejandro Garcia Olayón, Santa Clara's Police Chief Cornelio Rojas (see cuts). After one execution drew a crowd of 3,000, the rebels ruled that spectators would henceforth be barred-but allowed to inspect the bodies afterward...
...This is not necessarily a bad sign," Albert Haertlein '16, associate Dean of Engineering and Appiled Physics, asserted. "It is or greater benefit to the nation to have people in the fields they are most interested in." He emphasized that most students who drop engineering lack skill, not interest...
From Peking, the Agence France Presse correspondent reported through censorship "lively discontent . . . The man on the street has difficulty understanding why he is being sacrificed for the benefit of the peasants." Observers offered a number of reasons: Red China is exporting about 2,000,000 tons of grain a year; China's archaic and anarchic transportation system, being rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could...
...equipped with more than 95 million radios; there are more car radios (38 million) in operation than there were home sets ten years ago. And radio advertising last year was up 3% over 1957. The trouble, from the networks' point of view, is that most of these gains benefit the independent stations, where advertisers can buy into shows that are both cheaper and more closely tailored to local markets than network programs. More and more affiliated stations hesitate to use network shows in prime time slots that can often be more profitably sold to local advertisers. To fight against...