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...inspection tour through the tall cane country outside Havana, Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro, 33, decided to limber up his strong arm, took over pitching chores in a sandlot baseball game, carelessly allowed a runner to steal second. The incensed pitcher imperiously motioned the man back to first, delivered the shortest oration of his reign. "In the revolution," cried Castro, "stealing is not permitted-even in baseball...
Outside In. Even with a brisk business and social schedule, the President sandwiched in a little outdoor activity in the Kennedy tradition. One morning he put on a plaid sports jacket, some old shoes and an old hat, picked up a snappy walking cane, and hiked through the snow-covered streets of Washington with his Choate roommate, New York Adman K. Le Moyne Billings. Later in the day he stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House...
...rich, mucky land along the shores of Lake Okeechobee in Florida's Everglades last week were paying as high as $1,000 an acre for land worth only $300 just six months ago. They were not Northerners planning vacation homes; they were Florida sugar-men looking for good cane-growing land so they can cash in on the sweet prosperity they see ahead for the domestic sugar industry, now that Cuban supplies...
...What happened in Cuba points up the necessity for a strong, healthy domestic production," said President Harry T. Vaughn* of Florida's biggest producer, United States Sugar Corp. The corporation is going to more than double its cane plantings in the next two years, to 65,000 acres, and put $20 million into a new mill and refinery. Within a few years, Florida's raw cane production is expected to be five times the 175,000 tons it is today. So confident are Florida producers, says Vaughn, that even though they could not meet their last year...
Switch from Vegetables. New growers are entering the industry. Some 300 farmers have banded into the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, and by next year will have a $6,000,000 mill operating. Growing sugar, at yields of $200 an acre, is more profitable than riding the ups and downs of raising vegetables. Refugee sugarmen from Cuba are jumping into the Florida mucklands to start anew after Castro grabbed their Cuban holdings. The Florida Sugar Corp. is setting up two mills and planting 2,000 acres, with $6,000,000 from the Bacardi rum interests. Osceola Farms, backed...