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...Peru itself, after a year's pursuit, army troops finally captured Hugo Blanco, 29, a home-grown Communist who vowed to ignite a Castroite revolt among peasants in the Andes. Said Blanco: "They have taken me and a few others, but many are still at large. They will continue the Peruvian revolution." Though the U.S. swiftly rejected the feeler, it did take one small step in that direction when the State Department announced last week it would allow commercial U.S. airliners to resume routes over Cuban territory for the first time in seven months...
...Harvard to which James came in 1961 was a relatively mediocre educational institution. But affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive...
...against the slate-grey winter waters of Lake Michigan. Bulldozers cut great swaths through slums; in their wake thousands of new dwellings are being planted. New classrooms keep pace with the growing school population, new expressways crosshatch the megalopolis, manufacturing and income are steadily climbing. Chicago-once described by home-grown Author Nelson Algren as a city on the make-is a city on the move (see color...
...expanded his hard-sell heritage. Brooke Bond now sells six brands of tea, which it markets in 80 countries at prices ranging from 42? a lb. to $2.24. In India 65 million cups of Brooke Bond tea are downed daily, and in tea-rich Ceylon, housewives increasingly pass up home-grown bulk tea for Brooke Bond "packets." ("This," says Brooke, "is an achievement akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.") In Canada its Red Rose brand has pulled abreast of Salada as the national favorite...
...also no evidence, Kennedy said, of "any organized combat force in Cuba from any Soviet-bloc country." He stressed that the Russians landing in Cuba are not troops but technicians-and he seemed to take comfort from that fact. But Castro does not need troops; he has all the home-grown gun toters he can use. What he does need, and what he is getting. is the electronics, radar and missile experts so vital to modern warfare...