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...goods, which until recently were all but barred by government policies. West Germans, Austrians, Swiss and Lebanese are back in force building bridges and ports. To stimulate the long-stalled economy, the government announced that 70% of all oil revenues, which have been largely diverted to the purchase of Czech arms and the construction of officers' villas, would henceforth go to big development projects...
Guarding the Pool. In Cuba Castro continued his tawdry little melodrama of "invasion." He lined the Havana waterfront with Russian tanks, field guns, four-barreled antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons. One band of defenders mounted a newly arrived 12.7-mm. Czech machine gun on the cabanas of the Habana Riviera Hotel, strategically overlooking a bathing beauty near the pool below. Militiamen took up positions inside Havana's San Francisco Roman Catholic Church and two Catholic schools, mined bridges and fanned out around the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...
Machine-Tied Bows. The Chicago Printed String Co. was founded by a Czech family who came to the U.S. in 1912 with a process for printing names on tape for labels and industrial tagging. The company developed its own tape machines, began experimenting with decorative tapes. It jumped into the wrappings business in 1927 with Ribbonette, a fast-selling cotton ribbon that curled easily when drawn over a sharp edge. In 1939 it began sending its "Tie-Tie" girls to department stores to conduct gift wrapping schools. After World War II, sales began to boom, will reach an estimated...
...Song of Coffee. In Bolivia, the Czech embassy distributes Peking's propaganda and possibly cash, and the head of the Bolivia's Miners Union is now en route home from China, sending back to local papers a series of flowery articles of praise. Brazil is a major target, and hundreds of prominent Brazilian leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech...
...unknown quantity of Czech truck-mounted tactical rockets for field troops...