Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...
...Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled all over Europe and Mexico like brothers." Fed up with excited reporters, the Aly snapped at one: "Look here, old boy. I like to answer your questions...
...President Alvin C. Eurich made plans to move on. Last week he became first president of New York's State University, which exists only on paper. After next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test...