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...talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told them that they weren't even close." The San Francisco Giants, hoping to harvest a homegrown product, sent out three scouts last year, gave up when the bids for young Blasingame went into orbit. "We didn't mind," said Dale Blasingame. "Business was pretty good...
...million loan to Angola for development is being used to finance the garrisons; there is no foreign investment coming into Angola and no development capital available. Worst of all, next month Angola's $55 million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop is in the north, accessible by a single 170-mile road currently under rebel control. If Salazar fails to get the harvesters and their equipment through the terrorist enfilade, Angola's economy will be virtually destroyed...
...treasury began to fill, Trujillo built schools and boasted that he had raised the literacy rate from 30% to 96% during his regime. Efficient hospitals were built; good roads (with military check points every few miles) crisscrossed the island to carry a rich sugar and coffee harvest to market. Trujillo spent millions on self-glorifying publicity (hiring such U.S. agents as F.D.R.'s Attorney General Homer Cummings and F.D.R. Jr. himself), and won such influential champions as U.S. Democratic Senators James O. Eastland and Allen Ellender, who once said, "I wish there were a Trujillo in every country...
...they almost always end up looking like her") or sits in her red swing and listens to 1920s records. On weekends, she does dutifully the chores of a not-yet star: she packs up her 40-lb. dress and dances the Charleston (In Person!) at Kupcinet's Harvest Moon Festival in Chicago or at the annual Palm Springs Police Association Show. Occasionally she sneaks off to visit her parents in Seattle (her father is assistant manager of a men's club). Her parents have watched her show only two or three times during the past year...
...drain the swamp and turn it into a tourist attraction. The peasants remained loyal to Castro and added their weight to the militia, which fought well enough for an outfit that was supposed to turn and run. The U.S. planners, despite counsel that June-when the sugar harvest is in and unemployment is high-would be a better month to count on unrest, decided to invade sooner, on the ground that it would be harder once some 200 Cubans returned from MIG training in Communist Czechoslovakia...