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...have cut off our trade," he said, "and that's why we work in the OAS and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba." Gaining Their Chains. Cuba was obviously feeling the economic squeeze of inept Communist management. Castro last week froze wages, invoked stringent penalties for absenteeism. The $293 million in the treasury when Castro took over has now shrunk to $5,000,000 in foreign exchange. Looking for help, Economic Czar Ernesto (Che) Guevara was dispatched in a hurry to huddle with Soviet Premier Khrushchev...
...Hamburg, Danish frogmen dived beneath the waters to hunt for bodies: for six hours two Bundeswehr soldiers stood in shoulder-deep water holding two children piggyback. The parents of the children finally succumbed to exhaustion and slipped beneath the flood tide. It was so cold that many people froze to death on rooftops before rescuers arrived...
...floor. "Sir," began Sarah McClendon, Washington correspondent for a string of 14 dailies in Texas and New England, "two well-known security risks have recently been put on a task force in the State Department to help reorganize the Office of Security." John F. Kennedy's face froze. Before Mrs. McClendon could go on, he interrupted her. "Well, now," said the President coldly...
Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...
When London reporters insisted on raking over his part in planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan's visiting Air Defense Force chief, General Minoru Genda, 57, incautiously blurted: "I have no regrets." As his British Air Ministry hosts froze, blunt General Genda ("You must remember that in these things I speak as a soldier") hastily offered a retraction. "Yes, I do have regrets," he confessed. "We should not have attacked just once-we should have attacked again and again...