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Speed & Cash. There was no doubt about the speed of the project. Work began in mid-August, when the U.S. construction firm of Thompson-Cornwall Inc. put 450 men to work round the clock on a $1,000,000 contract to build the air strip and an airport building. Though the Guatemalan government usually looks for easy terms and already owed Thompson-Cornwall more than $1,000,000 for earlier road construction, it paid cash this time...
...renowned for his eccentricity as for his talent, Canadian-born Concert Pianist Glenn Gould, 28, often bundles up against the cold in mid-August. One day a year ago, as Gould tells it, he was sitting in the Manhattan offices of Steinway & Sons when William Hupfer, Steinway's chief technician, strode in overflowing with a he-man heartiness usually reserved for college reunions. On previous occasions, according to Gould, Hupfer had subjected him to "unduly strong handshakes and other demonstrative physical acts." This time, Gould claims, Hupfer approached him from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down...
...week as British, Greek, Turkish and Cypriot delegates initialed the 87 separate documents making up the draft treaty for an independent Cyprus. Britain rushed an independence bill to Commons, while Archbishop Makarios, the President-elect, called the first parliamentary elections for July 31 and looked forward to freedom by mid-August...
Then Kintner added the remarkable claim that NBC had got its "first established evidence of quiz-show rigging" only through the Washington hearings, and that he had not known about any kind of rigging until mid-August...
...warehouses run short of a few kinds. Automakers are in a similar fix. They have stored sufficient steel to run well into the 1960 model year-unless a supplier of some critical component has miscalculated and runs out of steel. Chrysler, which will start producing its 1960 models in mid-August, has a big enough stockpile to roll through mid-November. Ford (which makes 40% of its own steel) and General Motors will begin their 1960 runs about Sept. i, have enough steel...