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Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...
Last week, without notice, they fired Wernette. Protested editors of the student paper Lobo: "Wernette is an educator and a scholar and evidently could not play politics. . . . The university is , on the bottom of the national credit list now. ... If something isn't done about our so-called 'Board of Regents,' our diplomas will be scholastically worth about as much as Confederate money...
Last month gunmen began spreading their shots. One night as he drove home to suburban Miramar, Sugar Merchant Julio Lobo Olavarria, one of Cuba's richest men, was wounded by gunfire from a passing sedan. Lobo denied having refused a $50,000 shakedown demand...
...meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites its lip and raises his hands in victory. For the first time...
...days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn in pursuit of the Nicaraguan bandit Lobo (Sandino...