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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empire Builder. In addition to banking, Guevara has grabbed off half the burgeoning National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), which is rapidly matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has a free hand for revamping Cuba; last week he seized the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. His appointment as National Bank chief touched off a run on savings banks-which Guevara thought "logical," considering his "fame of being extremely radical...
Portly Fur Scion John Jacob Astor barely got off the legal ground in his effort to break the will of his late half brother Vincent and win an Astor-size slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million estate (TIME, Aug. 3). On the eve of the trial, J.J. threw in the towel, settled for a tax-free $250,000-a relative pittance that seemed little more than the price of sparing Vincent's executors the nuisance value of J.J.'s action. J.J. will be paid off by the Vincent Astor Foundation, whose main purpose is to improve...
...Stade also praised the new singlerent plan, whereby all rooms in freshman dormitories rent for the same price per year regardless of size or "desirability." He asserted that "it has eliminated the distinction between 'Gold Coast' freshmen and scholarship students, and has also brought greater mixing among groups of students." Last year the Masters debated extending this policy to upperclassmen, but finally rejected...
Used to chasing the puck, they must learn to stay with their opposite wings and destroy the opponent's plays. Weiland's philosophy, "you can cut a better player down to size if you cover him" is a perfectly valid one but hard to instill in a group of goal-hungry forwards...
Outlining difficulties of the tour, Henning described the wide variety of conditions under which productions must be given. Audiences will vary from parlor-room size to groups of several thousand, and the size of the stage will also not be standard, necessitating re-blocking by the director for practically every performance...