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...McWatters, 40, a fourth-generation descendant of the first John Harvey, Harvey's since World War II has been buttoning up its sources of supply. The company has taken over two prime producers of Portuguese port, has a working agreement with the Spanish sherry house of Zoilo Ruiz Mateos. Last year McWatters took Harvey's into the whisky business by buying out Stewart and Son, a Scotch blender only 35 years younger than Harvey's itself. This spring he heard that control of the 110-acre Latour vineyard on the Gironde might be ready to pick. Active...
...CYNTHIA RUIZ-FORNELLS Tuscaloosa...
...Then a state of emergency was declared in the three provinces most affected; 4.000 fresh troops and militiamen were sent in to reinforce the local authorities. But the cops were careful to avoid excessive trouble. Avoiding a showdown. Franco sent a trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse for two weeks in speeches and conferences with worker councils-and only after promising to grant many of the wage demands. For Franco Spain, this was extraordinary; Spanish workers, breaking the regime...
...disillusioned still fled. Among them: Rufo López Fresquet, Castro's first Finance Minister; Julio Duarte Ruiz, president of the General Accounts Tribunal; Enrique Menocal, secretary of the Sugar Institute; seven Cuban seamen who jumped ship in the Panama Canal Zone; five Dominican exiles who tried to row their way to freedom in Florida...
...adjustment, which set the tone of LÓpez Mateos' first year, was a tough and successful fight to save the peso from devaluation. In the first six months of 1958, under free-spending President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a budget in the red by $66 million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade...