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...consumption-result in a narrow, rapidly fluctuating market. The fact is, according to coffeemen, that about 40% of all U.S. coffee is traded on the exchange. The price rise, they insist, was simply due to heavy demand coupled with the fear of a low, frost-bitten supply. Says Gustavo Lobo Jr., president of the New York exchange: "If speculation occurred, it was within permissible limits. If we are going to curb speculation entirely, we will have to do away with free markets of every kind...
...professedly lazy 19-year-old girl who appears to be neither a perfectionist nor fiercely competitive, but whose name is already on a lot of golf trophies. It is a name that Texans expect soon to be known to the outside world: Lesbia Lobo of San Antonio...
Lesbia learned golf from her father, an ex-caddy and high-70s amateur named Joe Lobo (the Spanish surname means wolf). Her first big victory came two years ago in the Mexican Women's Amateur, when Lesbia was only a junior in San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School. Since then, Joe Lobo, an engraver who lives above his own shop, has been working overtime to finance his daughter's travel to tournaments. Nowadays Lesbia also gets a helping hand from admiring fellow Texans, who give her a lift to tournaments, sometimes arrange for her to stay...
After his father's death in 1950, Lobo moved his 10,000 volumes on Napoleon, his collection of Goyas and Gainsboroughs and his two daughters into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...
...that he can spend more time with "my mistress, sugar," he has fitted out a penthouse over his office. Even when he travels, as he often does, to Europe, the U.S. and South America, Lobo deals in sugar day & night by international telephone. "This business needs me," he says. His name in Spanish means "wolf"-"lone wolf," he explains with relish. Evenings, he says, when the last of the day's 500 cables have been answered, "I like to walk alone from my office to the harbor. There I can sit on the edge of a pier, gaze...