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When President Kennedy embargoed imports from Fidel Castro's Cuba last month, the Tampa cigar makers, who roll 97% of the 693 million Havanas puffed each year in the U.S., faced going out of business. Most of the 4,800 Florida cigar workers and their bosses grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry...
Last week the U.S. Cigar Manufacturers Association called on the President and Congress to plug this loophole. In Tampa, more than 600 cigarmen have already been laid off. But manufacturers seemed in no hurry to follow the leader to the Canaries. Asked James J. Corral, president of the 657-man Corral-Wodiskay Cia.: "What if you establish a factory there and they change the rules of the game on you? You've lost a lot of money, that...
Rarely has the Air Force had a more colorful Chief of Staff than General Curtis LeMay. His bull-dog face, habitual cigar and lettuce-covered uniform clothe a tough, efficient military mind. LeMay, who still expertly pilots jet tankers, commands the universal respect of his men. This respect is well-deserved, for he was largely responsible for building the Strategic Air Command to its present strength. But the General does not realize that the bomber is not a sacred part of the nation's defenses. Wedded to his bombers, LeMay jelously attempts to increase their number and importance at every...
Gesturing vigorously with a long cigar in his right hand, the Speaker predicted passage of Kennedy's trade expansion bill. He also repeated his pledge to vote for an aid to education bill even if it does not offer assistance to parochial schools...
Sail a Crooked Ship. The last movie made by the late Ernie Kovacs is a sort of shaggy seadog story in which Comedian Kovacs plays "a unsussessful crinimal" with a big cigar and a tiny brain...