Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sort of Sick." Hardest hit U.S. companies are Atlantica del Golfo (with 500,000 acres), the Rionda group (500,000), Cuban-American Sugar Co. (330,000), United Fruit Co. (270,000). But since the law also prohibits anyone from owning more than 995 acres of farm land or 3,316 acres of ranch land, many Cuban operators will suffer. Castro promised that he will reduce his own family's 2,178-acre farm to the new legal limit...
...companies were officially silent, privately frantic. "This isn't expropriation," cried one sugar executive. "It's confiscation!" Said another: "We're sort of sick here." Sugarmen talked hopefully about one provision in the law: the newly created National Agrarian Reform Institute can let foreigners own land when "beneficial for the development of the national economy." This loophole may permit the companies to stay on until they can find buyers for the land. But losses will be heavy. The price of sugar land has already dropped by half from a year ago, and shares of the affected companies...
Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Wyatt gets so sick of trying to dry-clean Dodge City that he is tempted to turn in his marshal's star...
Freedom Leap. Fortnight ago two Burmese physicians were excitedly summoned by a Russian woman embassy doctor to Stryguine's fashionable 42 Inya Road address. They found Stryguine in a deep coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was surrounded by Russians who only reluctantly let the critically sick man be moved to Rangoon General Hospital. Two Soviet toughs went along to watch...
...Reginald Taylor, 58, got typhoid fever in Australia 30 years ago. Back in Britain after a good recovery, he almost forgot it-until last year, when his three children got sick and Taylor was found to be a male "Typhoid Mary." Fired from his job as a batman at an infantry school, Taylor was forbidden to get near food intended for others, found his employment card marked in warning red, could not get a job. Last month he agreed to the standard operation that too many typhoid carriers refuse (though it does not always work)-removal of the gall bladder...