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...fuse that detonated the fight was a memorial service for Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez, a rebel killed last May during an abortive raid on the National Palace. Attending the service in the inland city of Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took...
...Kennedy surprise a veteran television-watcher of rocket launchings. I had envisioned a compact base, with launching pads and rockets bunched closely together. But the Cape is huge, much of its acreage still covered by scrubby palms. Occasional rattlesnakes are still found there, and when a hurricane drives them inland, the snakes become a serious nuisance. The pads are spread out, miles from each other, connected by a series of highways with names like "Solid Motor Road," "Central Control Road," and "ICBM Road...
...being plotted, but hardly anybody took it seriously. Shortly before 2 a.m. one day last week, Dr. T. Alcibíades Espinosa, a gynecologist and nabob of a small, far-right group with almost no support among the military, marched into the National Historical Archives Building in the inland city of Santiago, followed by a corporal's guard of 60 men armed with machetes, baseball bats and a few ancient rifles...
Lift in Output. The two trends together have touched off the greatest migration and building program in the steel industry's 101-year history. U.S. Steel and Inland, both longtime Chicago producers, have major expansion programs under way to add furnaces and finishing mills. Jones & Laughlin will erect a ground-up $600 million plant at Hennepin, 111. (TIME, July 9). Bethlehem is spending $400 million on a 3,300-acre complex of finishing mills at Burns Harbor, Ind. Youngstown Sheet & Tube is laying out $375 million for a blast furnace and finishing mills at East Chicago, and Midwest Steel...
...planning to build a 4,100-car marshaling yard near the new mills, is shifting three miles of the Central's New York-Chicago main line in the process. So strong is the future that Chicagoans have adopted a somewhat condescending attitude toward Pittsburgh. "In steel," says Inland's Vice President William Caples, "this is where the action...