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...outcome was a great relief to the many Americans who found the deal repugnant. But President Kennedy was dis appointed. The prisoners weighed on his conscience: they had undertaken their invasion under his sponsorship, and his decision not to support them with U.S. air cover doomed whatever prospects for success they might have had. So the President undertook a second ransom effort, with less fanfare, working through the Cuban Families Committee-"Project X." the White House called...
According to friends. Lee and Stash wanted it annulled to placate Stash's devoutly Catholic father, Prince Janusz Radziwill, 82, who is said to have dis approved of their civil marriage...
...system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each county was permitted so many unit votes in the ballot box. Invariably, this gave the rural counties a hugely dis proportionate balance of power against the populous areas; Griffin himself, for example, was elected in 1954 on only 36% of the popular vote...
...more important, the discounters are making the pie bigger. Last year's dis count store sales of $4 billion are expected to grow this year to more than $5 billion-and conventional retailers are also ringing up increased sales...
...beginning, nobody but the cus tomer had a good word to say about dis count houses. But it has been found that when a discount buyer pays less than he had expected for a TV set or refrigerator, he is usually in the mood to spend the extra money on other goods. Discounters thus contribute their bit to economic growth every time they induce a customer to swap dollars for goods that he would not have bought had prices been higher...