Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week named its first ambassador to the new Southeast Asian nation of Malaya. Appointed by President Eisenhower: Career Diplomat Homer Morrison Byington Jr., 49, born of U.S. parents at Naples, Italy, educated at Phillips Academy and Yale ('30), veteran of foreign service in Cuba, Yugoslavia, Italy (ten years) and Spain, credited by old foreign service hands as having "the smoothness with which machinery rolls." Last job: minister of the U.S. mission in Madrid...
...from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some 40 million all over the U.S., Canada and, for the first time, "over the horizon" to beisbol-slappy Cuba...
...stand-by credit of $739 million, its biggest single deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers at the expense of others...
...roarer left his ranch in good hands. Today, another generation of Klebergs run the Texas kingdom that has spread far beyond the adventurous boatman's dreams. The 890,000 Texas acres are supplemented by pastures in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; Santa Gertrudis cattle are raised in Cuba, Australia and Brazil. Rare new grasses are cultivated on White Horse Desert, and King Ranch thoroughbreds race on the world's finest tracks...
...still small, but a few big contracts are beginning to roll in. Last week Freeport Sulphur Co. ordered about $500,000 worth of titanium tubing from Titanium Metals Corp. of America to carry a highly corrosive ore slurry at Freeport's new nickel and cobalt mine in Cuba...