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...past few years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...
...Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent, to include them in a special detachment mobilized to provide food, transportation and other services for Hungarians arriving at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base...
...Louisville Orchestra's brave project for commissioning contemporary music, backed by a $500,000 Rockefeller grant, is in trouble. Its quota - 40-odd new works played and recorded every year-has faded to a mere seven this season. Reason: only 1,021 of the planned 6,000 record subscriptions have been sold, partly because of shoestring promotion. But Louisville still has i) an orchestra that has learned to read modern scores better than any other in the U.S., and 2) a fat bag of new music, some of it masterly, e.g., Roger Sessions' Idyll of Theocritus, Elliott Carter...
...lock of one of her children's hair. Her sleeve caught fire, and in a moment her light summer dress became a sheath of flame. Trying to save her, Longfellow was himself seriously burned. The next day Fanny Longfellow was dead, and from then on Henry's quota of suffering was enough for any poet. It never made him a great one, but 18 years after the event he wrote...
...progress, East Germany is the only satellite where food is still rationed. By most economic standards, East Germany is being far outdistanced by West Germany. At the end of its first five-year plan in 1955, the Soviet zone (pop. 18 million) fell short of its quota for new housing by completing only 215,000 new dwellings, while West Germany (pop. 50 million) was finishing more than 2,000,000. In roughly the same period, real wages went up 50% in the East, 100% in the Bonn Republic. Last week West Germany released a telling statistic. In the impoverished East...