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Last week the dictator callously pulled the rug out from under his apologists. Four new Trujillo laws went into effect, aimed squarely at the two U.S. sugar companies-the West Indies Sugar Corp. and the South Porto Rico Sugar Co.-which grow and mill 70% of the country's sugar. One of the new laws empowers Trujillo's sanitary inspectors to fine the companies and shut down their mills for health-code infractions; another requires the companies to pay production taxes on their full sugar quotas whether the mills are running or not. Two other laws levy...
Encouraged by Pepsi's prosperous new Latin American business, Steele last week planned to push into Brazil with plants in Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and Rio. All of Steele's new plants may well run up his concentrate sales abroad to equal 1.4 billion bottles annually - almost half of what Pepsi sells...
...pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here for five years," said one bewildered cop, "and I never thought I had an enemy...
...stranger to travel, Macrae was born in 1923 in East Prussia, where his father was a vice consul, spent his first eight years in Königsberg, Dunkirk and Porto Alegre, Brazil. After returning to England to go to boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...city manager contends. One of his more spectacular savings involved purchase of an $18,000 truck for $1,000 through alert spotting of a war surplus deal. Actually the vehicle cost only a paltry $500 but it required an additional $500 to ship the thing from San Juan, Porto Rico...