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Next day, Jack, Jackie and the kids played host to 2,000 underprivileged Washington children, who downed 200 gallons of cocoa and 10,000 sugar cookies while a detachment of Scotland's famed Black Watch Regiment of bagpipers skirled and twirled on the White House lawn. It was the beginning of Jackie's official appearances after the death of two-day-old Patrick Bouvier Kennedy last August...
Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks of the 1950s, thousands of amateurs-from house wives to retired mailmen-are trying for even quicker profits in the fitful, fickle commodity futures. Sales on the Chicago exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them...
Ships & Caesars. Manna is adept at verbal slapstick. He is the fellow who created in the night boites of Cocoa Beach the astronaut who refused to be blasted off until his missing crayons were found. In another routine, he lands the first men on the moon-with such a jolt that their trousers fall down. He has some good one-liners. "I don't talk about Liz Taylor because some day it will be my turn," he says. He also notes that he never talks about his wife because "what's done is done...
...Brazil's biggest cocoa port, some 180 stevedores were in the seventh week of a strike called to increase the size and pay of stevedore gangs that load cocoa aboard ships. The demands would raise the handling cost for a ton of cargo to $49 (v. $12 in New York) and price Brazil's cocoa right out of world markets...
...measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...