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After 82 Years, Ferment. Sold to a group of bankers who lacked the Welch blend of virtue and hard-sell, the company made little headway after Dr. Charles' death in 1926. In mid-Depression, the ailing grape-juice industry was rescued by a Welch competitor, Jacob M. Kaplan, a self-made molasses mogul who had bought control of Hearn's department store in New York. After buying a small upstate New York winery in 1933, to supply Hearn's liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started...
...Hungary: Edward Thompson Wailes, 53, Foreign Service officer since 1929 and the department's Assistant Secretary for Personnel and Administration before going to troubled, racist South Africa. Tall, balding Tom Wailes, a specialist on Europe, will report on a Communist satellite that appears to be in considerable ideological ferment...
...policy calls for contrapuntal shifts in U.S. economic and political policy, he disagreed fundamentally with such top-flight Democrats as Adlai Stevenson and Averell Harriman, who say that Russia is winning diplomacy's chessboard battles and that the U.S. is losing. By his reckoning the Soviets have unleashed ferment and uncertainty within their sphere that are potentially fatal not to the U.S. but to Russia's own world position...
...confusion that pervaded France's Communist Party, long the most Stalinist outside the Iron Curtain, on the eve of its first congress since Khrushchev pulled the plug on Stalin last February. The workers, taught to regard pale ex-Miner Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked...
...wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...