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Advantage to Cuba is that it would help stabilize the island's mercurial economy. But many Cubans (especially sugar growers and grinders) are not too fond of stability when sugar prices are rising. The U.S. negotiators may run into trouble aplenty. In Havana last week, an executive of the Cane Planters Association blasted the plan, declared: "We believe the 1942 crop can be sold advantageously at market prices during the year...
...amplification of his ideas concerning the health and sickness of nations, Professor Hooton has made a number of observations about other European nations as well. He is fond of comparing nations and their diseases to humans and their allments. "In some, national discase manifests itself mainly in lethargy, stagnation, and general debility. In others, unfortunately, it takes the form of frenzy, and the entire state rums amok wreaking world wide havoc...
They grew quite fond of this old-fashioned Ambassador who allowed no liquor in his Embassy, at formal dinners served mineral water from the hills of Mexico. He spoke no Spanish, said he was too old to learn. But he always listened affably to Mexican oratory, of which he understood not a word. Mexicans soon got used to seeing him smilingly applaud their thunderous speeches denouncing imperialismo yanqui...
...alike. From his early battles against monopoly in the city of Boston to his monumental dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court bench, Brandeis objected to size--to financial pyramids, to huge monopolies, to interminable leases. When speaking of the necessity for control of such institutions, he was fond of quoting an old German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies...
...crack songwriting team (willowy Ann Sothern and stuffy Robert Young) splits up because its male member is too fond of wallowing in high society. They divorce and become separate failures. They remarry and click again. Then, for unco good measure, they very nearly repeat the routine. This folderol consumes no minutes...