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...government control and the only one that did not subscribe to the government-owned Prensa Latina news agency, was also the only remaining journalistic outlet for even mild criticism of Castro. Last week, when Información, bedeviled by government economic pressures, decided to abandon the struggle, even the façade of press freedom finally collapsed in Cuba...
...battle of New Orleans last week was fought both on the streets and in the courts. Methodically, relentlessly, the courts tore down segregation's façade. A three-judge federal panel denied the legality of interposition-the odd notion that a state government may interpose itself between the judgments of the U.S. Supreme Court and the people. Interposition, said the court, "is not a constitutional doctrine. If taken seriously, it is illegal defiance of constitutional authority...
...there was still no comrades-united communiqué. Perhaps one could yet be agreed upon. But the Communist world was faced with the co existence of two truths-one in Moscow and one in Peking-and any pretense to "monolithic solidarity" was becoming more and more a mere fa...
...made in. they can be made repayable partly or wholly in the currency of the borrowing nation. Interest on normal loans will be a maximum of 6%, low by Latino standards; on special loans the rate will be as little as 3%. The new bank bears little beneath-the-façade resemblance to the other development outfits that the U.S. is caught up in. Public Law 480 sells U.S. surplus agricultural products for local currencies, then lends back the payments for development. The Export-Import Bank makes loans exclusively for the purchase of U.S. equipment and commodities. The International...
...first siren whoosh of the commercial jetliner not only changed man's notion of time and travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes...