Word: daniels
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Shortly after his arrival in Cuba, the Associated Press's Daniel Harker encountered Fidel Castro at a reception in the French embassy. "Why did they ever send you to Havana?" asked Castro. Marker's answer was blunt and honest. "I guess the A.P. thought I was expendable," he said. Four years after Castro's revolution sealed the island from nosy newsmen, only three Western correspondents - all wire service men - remain on duty in Havana...
...Recently, Ben Bella told the New Republic's Jean Daniel: "To me, Castro is a brother, Nasser is a teacher, but Tito is an example...
Died. Claude Moore Fuess, 78, longtime (1933-48) headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art, not a science"; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass...
Last week Pat McGinnis' railroading career came in for more criticism-this time from the law. A Boston federal grand jury indicted McGinnis, B. & M. President Daniel A. Benson, Vice President George F. Glacy and a railroad equipment broker named Henry Mersey, charging that they had engineered kickbacks in the sale of B. & M. surplus cars. In 1958, the indictment charged, another railroad broker offered $500,000 for ten passenger and baggage cars that B. & M. wanted to sell. Pat McGinnis blocked the sale. Instead, the B. & M. sold its cars to Mersey, whose office is in the same...
Most self-made men begin their impatient climb to wealth as teenagers; Daniel Keith Ludwig could not wait that long. As a nine-year-old in South Haven, Mich., he bought a sunken 26-ft. boat for $75, raised and repaired it, then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines...