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...congressional election in 1912 in a lunatic-fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters...
...American masses who are anxious for a better life." Cuban diplomats across the hemisphere are hard at work spreading Che's "truth" and Communist propaganda. Allied with anyone who will cooperate, from Communists to sincere social work ers, they organize July 26 movements, show films of revolutionary progress, lend a hand in subversive plots, campaign for support among the backland peasants. In Venezuela last week, cops set out to arrest the leader of the July 26 movement after clashes of pro-and anti-Castro rioters and fatally shot him in a doorway. In Argentina, intelligence agents confronted the Cuban...
...hotel, Zeckendorf had to find the financing elsewhere. He got off to a typically dazzling Zeckendorf start. He borrowed $16.5 million from a bank to buy the land. Then he turned around and sold the land to the Prudential Insurance Co., leased it back from them. Prudential would also lend him $27.5 million-if he got the building up. With the $45 million within reach, Zeckendorf started digging...
...trade mission had suggested that Russia would be only too willing to help build the dam if the U.S. did not. The DLF sent an expert to make a study. He reported tnat the Tunisians were right: there was enough underground water. Last week DLF announced that it would lend Tunisia $18 million, enough to assure the building of the dam and the drilling of 15 ground wells...
...time. New Delhi's planners now forecast the 1966 population at 480 million-an increase of 65 million over the present total, or the equivalent of the population of Brazil. To help India feed this huge population during the next five years, the U.S. has agreed to lend $1.3 billion to pay for 17 million tons of U.S. surplus wheat and rice (TIME, May 16). But ultimately, India's economic stability will depend on learning to feed itself. And that will be up to the khaki farmers...