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Despite Batista's attacks, Castro, his army grown from a ragtag band of less than 100 to 600 wily sharpshooters, claimed victory in recent skirmishes. Guerrillas raided an army convoy, capturing Garand rifles and .30-cal. machine guns. The rebels reported the loss of 40 dead in the nine clashes but claimed to have killed five times that many government troops. For his next move Castro called for wide-scale sabotage, through his underground, of Cuba's all-important sugar-cane harvest, which traditionally starts in January. His slogan: "Batista without harvest or harvest without Batista...
...Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar has picked up some $400,000 in new business, increased his number of sponsors to nine. To show its appreciation, NBC last week exercised its option to keep Paar at work on Tonight until next March. Says Paar: "I'm the guy at the office party who nobody noticed all year and suddenly the cute girls are talking...
...Japan, which supports 91 million people in an area the size of Montana, a nine-year-old birth-control program has already cut the birth rate almost in half (to 1.2% annually). The free world's most extensive contraception campaign is expected to achieve similar results in less industrialized India. A major problem facing underdeveloped nations is what scientists call "functionless fertility"−the peasant's tendency to continue having large families even when he no longer has to insure himself against a high death rate. India's economic planners say their biggest problem is still...
...this score, a husband-wife team from Johns Hopkins University, Plastic Surgeon Milton T. Edgerton and Chemist Patricia J. Edgerton report that skin grafts from one strain of mice to another normally died within nine days, but could be made to live as long as 38 days if they were retransplanted several times at four-day intervals. This suggested that an organ donated for spare-part use might be conditioned so that it would no longer stimulate the recipient's system to produce antibodies. And a team at the University of Minnesota reported on work with rats and rabbits...
...Emerson Foote, 50, who resigned nine months ago as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson Inc., the world's second-largest ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson), returned to advertising as chairman of Manhattan's Geyer Advertising, Inc. Longtime (26 years) topflight Adman Foote, who left McCann-Erickson (TIME, Feb. 18) "to return to the personal practice of advertising," made a "substantial" investment in Geyer, which ranks 38th in ad billing with bookings of $20.5 million. Self-described as "an overgrown account executive and a frustrated copywriter," Foote will get a chance to work both ends...