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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing I have read in recent months has given me so much satisfaction as did the account in your April 20 issue...
...readers of TIME'S Letters section (and, indeed, of the daily newspapers) well know, TIME has been hotly criticized in recent weeks for its coverage of unpleasant news in some countries friendly to the U.S., notably for stories of the economic crisis in Bolivia, the aftermath of revolution in Cuba, and government corruption in the Philippines. Replying to this criticism has given us the opportunity to restate some truths about TIME, and I thought you might like to see where we stand. The following is the text of one reply to a critic...
False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
...become as influential as college-board exams, marriage or the draft. Not all educators are happy about it. Some feel that schools are beginning to compete for the honor of producing winners, that teachers are teaching for the tests. This controversy is likely to grow, an ironic contrast to recent (cries that not enough of the nation's promising students" are getting to college...
...industry angrily disagreed. Chairman Avery C. Adams of Jones & Laughlin said that from 1940 to 1958 the industry's labor costs per man-hour increased 298%, while its shipments of steel products per man-hour increased only 30%. Thus, every recent wage hike kicked off a steel price boost (see chart). Adams and fellow executives contended that profits are still "inadequate" to support a wage hike. Even at last year's relatively high levels, steel's profits-to-assets ratio ranked 27th among the nation's 41 key industries. The "obvious" solution to wage-push inflation...