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...Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported ready to climb down. What Money...
Most Paraguayans are illiterate and speak the Indian tongue, Guarani. But the country counts eight daily newspapers, 13 radio stations, 17 movie theaters. In rural regions, entertainment includes dancing, chicken fighting, the drinking of caña (made from sugar cane), personal combat, general camaraderie. This program habitually starts at noon Saturday, ends at midnight Sunday...
...weight, full grown, was 96 lbs. A confirmed invalid, he suffered from coughs, sweats, neuralgia, nausea, diarrhea. He dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...
...Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...
Other crop reports made great expectations greater. In prospect are record yields of peaches, plums, truck produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...