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...both countries the sugar issue was mixed with political dynamite. The Cuban delegation appointed by Batista had been firmly instructed by the politically potent sugar interests to accept nothing less than 3.25? a Ib. But the CCC, with the powerful U.S. sugar lobby leering over its shoulder, could not offer the Cubans a higher price unless they gave domestic U.S. sugar-growers a price increase. Further, the action might set a precedent: Brazil would want more for its coffee, and other nations, chafing under U.S. ceiling prices on their products, might balk at contracting ahead...
...also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder to the moon, so earthly astronomers could see the hit. He calculated that only a little flash powder would do the job: 2.67 Ib. for a "just-visible" flash, and 13.82 to be "strikingly visible...
...attended by her husband, 285-Ib. George Zaharias, onetime heavyweight wrestler who now runs a custom tailoring establishment next door to the Beverly Hills, Calif, shop where Babe sells women's sport clothes. Trailing his wife around the course, Zaharias blew smoke from his cigar to show Babe the wind direction, rewarded her on the winning green with a mighty hug and a bouncing buss...
Tony Terlazzo, 34, who cleaned and jerked more than twice his own weight of 148 Ib. for the best single performance, already held all national records in his class. So did 33-year-old John Terpak, who set a new record in the military press for 165-pounders. Most popular performer in the show was Steve Stanko who won the title of "Mr. America." With other veterans, these Yorkers have made championships a York habit...
...their $86,210, Long Beachers get a repertory of good old-fashioned music. They also get the skilled elbow-waving of a veteran bandmaster named B. (for Benjamin) A. (for Albert) Rolfe, whose red face, wheezing voice and massive (230 Ib.) figure have become as indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke...