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...though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King is in his residence, which is a pretty villa next to mine, there always seem to be at least 70 people staying with him-all of them children...
...would review its "policy and attitude." Bad Timing. Castro's President dismissed the U.S. charges as "unfounded," leaving relations as bad as ever, and at a dangerous time for Cuba. As the State Department is anxiously aware, anti-Castro sentiment is growing in Congress, which early in the next session must write a new Sugar Act allocating the 4,500,000 tons of foreign sugar that the U.S. imports at the premium price of 6? a lb. (double the world price). Cuba currently has the lion's share, 3,200,000 tons...
Senator Russell Long from cane-growing Louisiana, who will have a powerful voice when the next quotas are written, says : "I don't think we should be favoring a country that is practically waging war on us." But, North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, whose Agriculture Committee will initiate the law, plans to try to put over an extension of present quotas for the "probationary" period of one year...
...fear of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Trujillo has spent $50 million abroad for arms, including French tanks and Mystere jet fighters, and his usually solvent budget is under strain. Vice President Joaquin Balaguer admits that commercial credits against next year's sugar crop are high (reportedly $40 million). Two prime sources: the local branches of The Royal Bank of Canada and The Bank of Nova Scotia. The cost of living, long stable, jumped 20% from July to October...
...hope to be here next year," said Pope John XXIII, 78 this month, as he celebrated the end of his first year on the throne. "But if the Lord should call me, I am ready." The Pope greeted 162 villagers from Sotto il Monte, his birthplace in northern Italy, told the 15,000 gathered in St. Peter's that the year had "passed like a day," then prayed for peace...