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...flown to the U.S. by defectors-five C46 cargo planes, three Piper Cubs, a DC-3B and a Cessna 180-as well as 3.5 million lbs. of lard purchased in the U.S. by Cuba and intercepted in Florida. He has sold these items for $200,000, is thus nearly halfway through his drive to recover $429,000 due him from the Cuban government because of a 1959 advertising contract...
...next move in Algeria was worked out. He sent Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, along with Defense Minister Pierre Messmer, to Algiers to check on the loyalty of the army and government officials and to probe the possibility of setting up some form of "provisional executive" in Algeria-a halfway house on the troubled road from French rule to Algerian independence. The travelers returned to Paris with gloomy reports. There seems little hope of finding any prominent Moslems willing to serve without F.L.N. permission. And should the F.L.N. agree, there is even less hope that the embittered French army...
...Disneyland and Freedomland, could Texas be far behind? Yup. as a matter of fact. But now, on a 35-acre site halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, a ten-gallon version of the modern, thematic amusement park has just opened to the public. The theme, of course, is TEXAS, mister, hubris spelled out in smoke signals; and the name of the place was originally Texas Under Six Flags. But that just would not do. "Texas," someone pointed out, "is under nothin'." So, as thousands of children and adults turned up to see what the new $10 million park...
Although widely despised as the rerun season, summer is in some ways the best time for television, since networks rebroadcast the best of their regular season shows, and viewers do not have to stare their way through 600 hours of pap for every halfway worthwhile 30 minutes. This saves the viewers from having to watch TV in the winter any more. Some of the better reruns...
...Crimson actually took the lead at the start and held it until the 200 meter mark, when Cornell captured the lead for good. Solidly in second place at the halfway point, the Crimson found itself behind at 1,500 meters and when captain and stroke Perry Boyden called for more power, it was too late...