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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the country, workers responded to Castro's appeal for funds to buy arms abroad. Around the clock, Havana television stations paraded donors, small and large. Some unions set a 4% deduction from salaries. In Pinar del Rio, 400 common prisoners pledged to stop smoking for two days and send in the 20? that each saved. Since Castro apparently cannot get the 17 Hawker Hunter jets that he wants from England (TIME, Oct. 26), he promised to buy planes "anywhere I can." Even Russia? asked a reporter. "Even the moon...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...
Finally a bowlegged halfback in a white and gold L.S.U. jersey plucked a bouncing punt out of the air on his 11, and All-America Billy Cannon set out for glory. He shrugged off one red-jerseyed tackier, ran right over a second. At midfield, Cannon surprised Mississippi's Fullback Charlie Flowers by cutting back instead of trying to go to the outside. (Admitted Flowers, an all-America candidate himself: "It was like a high school player trying to tackle an All-America. He went through my hands like nothing.") Cannon was all by himself when...
...Penn State (7-0)-freely used its subs in coasting past West Virginia, 28-10, set up the East's game of the year this week with Syracuse...
...from the Clinic. In Manhattan, Consolidated Edison, Standard Oil (NJ.) and others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...