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...Dominican dictatorship, the U.S. moved to comply. The OAS agreed on an embargo on arms sales to Trujillo; the U.S., which had long been embargoing the arms, went further. President Eisenhower sent Congress a message requesting permission to take back the 322,000 tons of canceled Cuban sugar quota assigned to the Dominican Republic last July...
...Lopez Mateos' P.R.I. made a speech describing the government as "carefully leftist." The President followed with a carefully meaningless statement that "within the constitution, my government is on the extreme left." Still for domestic consumption, P.R.I.'s congressional leader greeted U.S. curtailment of the Cuban sugar quota (which benefited Mexico) with a pledge of "solidarity with the people of Cuba...
There was one curious literary note that Mao Tun failed to mention. In 1958, the year of the great economic leap, the Writers and Artists Union announced plans for a literary leap as well. Mao Tun, like others, was assigned his quota: one long novel, two of medium length. As everybody in the audience knew, Mao Tun has produced no novel since. In fact, the pen of China's most important living novelist has been curiously still ever since Communism took over...
...instead of water, ignoring leaky valves that spilled out brew until it ran in the gutters. The brewery workers ran up "internal losses" amounting to 2,500,000 gallons of beer worth 40 million rubles-owing in part to on-the-job consumption. In order to make up their quota, they began putting water in the Zhiguli (named for a Volga River beauty spot). Even after a state inspector popped in unexpectedly and found the water content too high, brewery officials and workers kept pouring it in. When a formidable team of ministry investigators moved in, officials tried...
...sink of. Dinger Bell is the narrator-hero of an autobiographical novel by an Englishman who himself became an "apprentice" soldier at 14. As he remembers it, "the junior intake" at Hurlingford is possibly the most pathetic body of British men-at-arms since Justice Shallow filled his draft quota with village idiots, misfits and no-hopers...