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...What is sadly visible on the face of Cuba is clearer still in the statistics of economy. The country runs on sugar, and under Communism sugar has been ruined. Little or no cane has been replanted for three years ; most fields have not been fertilized. Many of the ex pert cane cutters who normally harvest the crop are in the militia, and the "vol unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which...
...group of show business luminaries led by Milton Berle rallied to stage a fund-raising TV series for her benefit, Edie declined, explaining that "it would have embarrassed Ernie, and besides, there are so many worth while things that really need help." To support their three daughters, the pert comedienne proposed to rely on her own endeavors, which currently include a lucrative contract to film commercials for cigars - which Chain Smoker Kovacs burned up at the rate...
...side of the revolving cutout, 4 ft. high, showed a pert teen-ager dressed for her high school prom; the other side pictured the same beaming lass clothed chastely in the religious habit of a nun. "This Could Be You," said the accompanying sign. The display, put up by Wisconsin's Cenacle nuns, was one of 60 competing exhibits that gave Milwaukee's municipal Auditorium and Arena the look of a spiritual bazaar. The occasion: Wisconsin's 16th annual Catholic Action convention...
...South Viet Nam, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is much more than Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law and a Christian first lady in a Buddhist land. She is also a pert, sloe-eyed and strong-willed feminist who, as a member of the National Assembly, pushed through a "chastity law" that reins in freewheeling husbands and gives wives more freedom to plan their own lives. To outspoken and powerful Madame Ngo, the cheating husbands of the journalistic world are the foreign correspondents, who are not subject to the Directorate General of Information "guidance" that all South...
...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...