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...move as cynical as it was cruel, Cuba's Fidel Castro fortnight ago offered to exchange some 1,200 Cuban rebels, all captured in the disastrous, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, for 500 heavy tractors, total cost of which would come to about $15 million to $20 million. Castro reckoned well on American humanitarianism (although his Communist propaganda line denies the existence of any such thing) and on an American guilt complex for having sent the Cuban rebels on their abortive mission. Within four days of his ransom demand, a committee of U.S. citizens, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt...
...story office buildings, a luxury motel and a vast apartment community on the land it owns adjacent to Northland. Still another Hudson's shopping center-Westland-is in the works, and there are signs that under its young, new boss, Hudson's may move even farther afield. Fortnight ago, J. L. Jr. announced plans to open a budget store outside Pontiac, 30 miles from Detroit. If the customers come, Hudson stores may ultimately spring up all over Michigan...
...what he considers the U.S.'s retreat in Laos. Thailand's border with Laos is long and lightly guarded. Some 50,000 Vietnamese settled in northern Thailand during Indo-China's fight against the French, and they have been heavily infiltrated by Communist agents. A fortnight ago, Sarit learned of Communist plans to stage an uprising among the Vietnamese. He quickly corralled the plotters, interrogated some of the 100 prisoners himself, declared that he had found documents linking them to Communist guerrillas in Laos. Last week, after Johnson left, Premier Sarit headed north in typical fashion...
Starting Flap. Johnson's new start has worked so well (last month he ran a wind-aided 9.2; fortnight ago, at Fresno's West Coast Relays, he won in 9.4 despite a strained groin muscle) that rival coaches are screaming foul. Occidental College's Chuck Coker argues that Johnson is using an illegal "rolling start"; that he is in motion before the starter's gun. The University of Illinois' Leo Johnson has threatened to force changes in N.C.A.A. track rules to ban his namesake's "questionable" technique. But most track officials agree with Coach...
...Posse. Worse yet was Brazil, now run by the mercurial Janio Quadros, who is four months older than Kennedy. Over the past fortnight. Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos has taken an increasingly hard line on Cuba, announced that Brazil would support in principle an OAS meeting and would be forced to break with Cuba if it proved to be overtly Communist...