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But President Sunderland, 53, is brimful of plans for restoring United Fruit's oldtime profits. Above all, Sunderland wants to make the company less dependent on bananas. It might diversify by raising more cattle, producing more palm oil, manufacturing soap and other palm-oil products. Most important, perhaps, United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Trouble in Green Gold | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

A Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. In impeccably stylized dialogue, the autor writes her 16th ostensibly comic novel, brimful of the vanity of human wishes and the tragic fatality of ancient Greek drama.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Mindful that his audience was made up largely of farmers, Speaker Symington fired on one of his favorite targets, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "I don't know who he represents," said Symington, "but I know who he does not represent-the farmers." But it was not what Symington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Everybody's No. 2 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The High Road | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Looking for Loopholes. Despite his "speaks for itself" record and all the attacks it has stirred up against him, Jimmy Hoffa is still cockily confident, brimful of big plans for the future, including an alliance of all land, water and air transport unions in the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pretty Simple Life | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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