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...football season had been a bleak one for California State Polytechnic College, the pride of the California mission city of San Luis Obispo-five games lost and only one victory. All the same, an adventurous excitement built up as the squad got ready for its one big faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...
Despite Castro's boast at the U.N. and elsewhere that he has reduced unemployment, some 700,000 workers are jobless, precisely the number under Batista. Downtown Havana's Galiano and Obispo streets are spotted with unemployed trying to peddle combs, hats, cigarettes, small leather goods. Those who have jobs face rugged taxation, even at the lowest unskilled wage level; a 3% income tax, a 4% "voluntary contribution" for industrialization, plus social security, union dues, and one-shot pass-the-hat campaigns cut the average worker's take-home...
...movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely bothered to look out the window. At week's end in San Luis Obispo, Calif., he turned the Marxist cliche around by complaining that the American "authorities" had not let him meet the real people, had kept him under virtual "house arrest...
...Luis Obispo, Calif...
...Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis Obispo horseshoe curve and carefully spotted the train for Vandivert's dramatic storytelling picture of piggyback hauling...