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...market reaction was instinctive: Wall Streeters naturally interpreted the indictment as a vindictive Administration follow-up to the steel-price struggle of a fortnight before. But the Administration denied that there was any connection-and the facts seemed to bear out the denial. At the height of the price fight, Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department did set in motion a grand jury probe of steel pricing, but that investigation is just getting started. The Justice Department investigation that led to last week's indictment started more than a year ago, in March 1961, shortly after the new Administration...
...unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which it got an average $500 million, most of it from the U.S. in preferential prices. Fortnight ago, Cuba's Minister of Industry, Che Gue vara, who, if nothing else, is the most candid of Cuba's new rulers, reported on this year's crop to a meeting of sugar workers: "The first thing we must say is that this harvest has been...
...cuckoo clocks; he has made more than two dozen in the last twelve years. Only Two Can Play is playing to sellout audiences in London and New York. He is Jean Anouilh's lecherous old general in Waltz of the Toreadors, which won superlative reviews when it opened fortnight ago in London...
...Beirut one morning a fortnight ago, curiosity seekers poured into the Phoenicia Hotel for opening-day glimpses of an unconventional attraction: a large, strikingly modern room resplendent with teakwood ceiling, Abyssinian peacock-wood paneling and a floor of peacock-blue carpeting. Marveling, the visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody...
June Treaty? But fortnight ago at Turin, De Gaulle won support for his proposal from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. In return, De Gaulle conceded specifically that: 1) a unified Europe will seek to strengthen, not undermine, the Atlantic Alliance; 2) heads of government will have no authority over the Common Market's economic affairs; 3) other existing supranational institutions, such as Europe's Coal & Steel Community, will remain independent...