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...their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself. But the play has a parlor-game brittleness and bite, and at its best a thrusting theatricality. Adapter Yaffe needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another death of a salesman. Even with good...
Many a U.S. manufacturer has hungrily eyed the underdeveloped British TV-phonograph market: only 65% of all British households have TV sets, v. 90% in the U.S. But the market is tough to bite into; purchase taxes and distribution costs are high. Philco sold its British subsidiary after trying; other major U.S. manufacturers shied away. Last week Magnavox Co. announced that it will go out after the British market in force...
Budget Slash. In Monza, Italy, after leaving his horse tied for half a day without food or water, Pietro Nodari returned to give the beast an affectionate pat, got a bite that put him in the hospital for two weeks...
...Bite. INRA's charter, Latin America's most drastic land-reform law, authorizes the expropriation, for 20-year 4½% Peso bonds, of all land holdings greater than 995 acres, except sugar, rice or cattle farms, which may be as big as 3,316 acres. In practice, INRA agents, who outrank even rebel army officers, have seized whatever farms they pleased regardless of size, and no bonds for payment of the farms have yet been printed...
...INRA bite so far comes to 123 confiscated plantations and 452 other farms that have been "intervened" (taken over) by the installation of an INRA administrator. Total: 2,200,000 acres. But INRA's actual functions go far beyond land reform. Its industrialization branch poses a threat to every private business in Cuba. Last week, as a signal of things to come. Dictator Fidel Castro, who is also President of INRA...