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...BOSTON-The FBI said yesterday it had cracked another underworld case. Agents arrested James F. Casey of Randolph in connection with the theft of one million S and H Green Stamps...
I.O.S. sold 11 million shares to Europeans, Canadians, employees and business friends. The shares, representing a 20% interest in I.O.S., were priced at $10, making the $110 million offering probably the largest equity issue ever floated outside the U.S. In the first day of over-the-counter trading, I.O.S. rose to $19 a share, then settled to $17 at week's end. At that level, the company had acquired a market value of some $935 million, and Cornfeld's own 15% holding had a paper worth of $140 million...
...Mexico's one major party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and spent the next six years bolstering Mexico's economy and international prestige. At home, he quelled labor disputes to entice foreign investment capital and established profit sharing for industrial workers; he spurred agrarian reform by deeding 30 million acres to the peasants, and under his aegis tourism became a $500 million-a-year business. As an internationalist, López Mateos courted heads of state and led Mexico in the campaign for a nuclear-free Latin America; in 1963, he negotiated the return to Mexico...
...down consumption and putting in extra hours of labor with no material compensation. Since most of Cuba's foreign exchange (crucial to importing machinery) comes from sugar exports, it will try to boost its sugar crop, falling since the early days of the revolution, to a total of ten million tons. The key to achieving this goal is voluntary labor, by students, intellectuals, and urban employees, who spend about a month each year doing unpaid work in the cane fields...
...crucial provision of the bill, which has already passed the Senate, forbids the Defense Department to carry out any research unless it "has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Most of the $4.2 million Harvard received in Defense Department grants last year goes for so called "pure research" projects which have no direct military application...