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...goal was to give every Clevelander three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine at monthly intervals between May and August. And Cleveland was reaching that goal with more dispatch than the city's sponsoring Academy of Medicine had considered possible...
...Castro officers imprisoned the naval base's commanders and started broadcasting a call to rebellion. Their appeal was ignored. Within hours loyal navy units had won back the base and arrested the rebel officers and their followers. But the rebels were in control just long enough to dispatch a force of 700 marines to occupy the city of Puerto Cabello, and to release 66 anti-Betancourt civilian guerrillas from the base prison. The guerrillas were each given two machine guns and went to join a group of rabidly pro-Castro students in town...
Just before he flew off to Europe on a combined holiday and art-buying tour, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 378,293) and grandson of its founder, tarried long enough to take a phone call from his editorial cartoonist, Bill Mauldin (TIME cover, July 21). Mauldin's message was brief: he was leaving the P-D (which was recently added to the official White House reading list, replacing the New York Herald, Tribune's for a better-paying job on Marshall Field Jr.'s Chicago Sun-Times (circ...
...conditioned headquarters next to Manila's presidential palace, a portly aristocrat in an immaculate white suit caught up with the business at hand. With imperious dispatch, Don Andres Soriano, 64, decided on the gift boxes that his companies will use next Christmas, studied the experimental strains of barley that he hopes to grow in the Mindanao highlands, and okayed production schedules for a new instant-coffee plant near Manila. That done, he got set to fly to New York to complete negotiations with International Paper Co. for construction of a jointly owned wood pulp and paper mill-the first...
What the President wanted to read instead of the Tribune, it turned out, was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Notified that the White House wanted 22 copies delivered every day, the Post-Dispatch, a liberal paper whose sentiments closely approximate Kennedy's own, splashed the good word all over its news pages, but otherwise said nothing...