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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 26 article on Fidel Castro fails to point out that he has been able to give Cuba its first honest government in its history ; you failed to foresee in previous stories how the ragged troops under the leadership of an "egotistic, impulsive, immature and disorganized" Castro could thoroughly beat the hell out of Batista...
Fitzgerald will race Jim Wade and Tom Cathcart of Yale in the mile, which promises to be the closest event of the afternoon. If the Crimson's Dyke Benjamin and Ed Martin, both injured, can return to their previous form in the mile and two-mile, the complexion of the meet might change altogether...
...Such a rule would increase the insularity of off-campus groups, as they would usually remain together in whatever house they were placed," a petition posted in Whitman Hall claimed, pointing out that "off-campus residents have chosen their eating places on the basis of friends made in previous years, and mealtimes are the primary--perhaps the only--way in which contact with this group can be maintained...
...antivice campaign suspended the crooked government lottery (costing 4,000 ticket vendors their jobs). The government also closed a giant private numbers game, kept locks on the big gambling casinos, employing 10,000. Castro wiped out the Botellas,*the workless government jobs given minor flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some as low as $22.50 a week. Cold morality...
...fast are earnings picking up to match the recovery? From U.S. business last week came fourth-quarter reports that showed profits rising fast enough in many cases to offset the previous slowdown and turn 1958 into a fine year. After limping along 33% behind 1957 for the first nine months, Monsanto Chemical Co. reported the best fourth quarter in history, so good that full-year earnings totaled $1.55 per share, only 7.7% behind last year. Philco's fourth quarter nearly doubled last year's rate. Seeburg Corp. announced 54? a share in the first quarter of its fiscal...