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...Glum and pessimistic, United Fruit Co. officials in Boston and Guatemala City waited last week to see what Guatemala proposed to pay for 233,973 acres of company land at Tiquisate, expropriated by the land-reforming government. A curt official telegram to Almyr Lake Bump, the U.S.-owned firm's Guatemala manager, finally brought the answer: $594,572, or $2.54 an acre-and that in 25-year, 3% government bonds. The company's unofficial valuation: $11.5 million. "The measure constitutes a heavy blow to the voracious imperialist company," gloated the Communist weekly Octubre. "Practically confiscation," snorted United Fruit...
Aussie tennis fans were understandably glum over the departure of their two top players. Only a year ago they had persuaded Sedgman to stay on as an amateur with a $12,000 "wedding gift" to his wife; this year Sedgman and McGregor were offered a string of filling stations, and insurance jobs guaranteeing them salaries of $11,225 a year within four years. But Sedgman was sure Australia had nothing to worry about: "We feel that Mervyn Rose, Lewis Hoad, Ken Rosewall and other youngsters will keep the Davis Cup in good hands." Now 25 and at the peak...
Eliot will be a heavy favorite when it plays the leading Yale college team Friday. It may well be the bright spot in an otherwise glum weekend...
...back in the days when American intellectuals were growing increasingly glum about the hope of capitalism. Seven million youths of college age were unemployed, and to many, the Soviet system seemed the only solution to their troubles. At the height of the depression, in 1932, a small group of students met in Leverett House D-41 and formed the John Reed Club. Devoted to the study of "scientific Marxism" and to education, the Reed Club was strictly intellectual and comparatively tame. In fact, it might never have attracted attention had it not immortalized by Norman Mailer...
...elect a new President by June 23). Rhee invited some moderates among the opposition to a party at a hot springs resort near Pusan, to talk over ways & means of compromising their difficulties. After the party, 37 of them were driven to the Assembly hall and furnished a silent, glum quorum while the 60-man pro-Rhee minority voted unanimously for their boss...