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They flee across the 90-mile Straits of Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats...
...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...
...mobile Russian rocket, which had already brought down two other high-flying U.S. jets. Apart from the half-dozen fixed sites clustered around Hanoi, the U.S. does not know how many SAM units there are in North Viet Nam, for as quickly as they fire, the mobile installations lumber off on their trucks and trailers to new locations. But as of last week, they have become the highest priority on the U.S. target list, if only they can be found...
Self-Made Mexican. Son of an iron and lumber magnate, Szeryng was raised in the Warsaw suburb of Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Chopin. A child prodigy, he was packed off to Berlin at seven to study violin with the renowned teacher Carl Flesch, five years later entered the Sorbonne. The day after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Szeryng volunteered for the Polish Army. Fluent in seven languages, he was assigned to the Polish government-in-exile in Great Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home...
...lumber and to hire craftsmen. And, of course, more homes and apartments inevitably mean more money spent on furniture and durables. The new legislation will generate economic results in two other areas. An education bill to be signed soon will extend federal school-construction aid to secondary and elementary levels, opening the way for up to $1 billion more in new construction. It will also raise teacher salaries-and spending power -and provide more funds for the textbooks, audio-visual aids and laboratory equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply...