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...rather than to fight. This they are doing abroad with little publicity. Last year they sent 63 teams into 15 Castro-shadowed Latin American nations, instructed 3,415 foreign soldiers. In Venezuela, for example, they ran some 1,500 Guardia National security forces through jungle courses in which silhouettes sprang from trees at trainees, who learned to pump at least two rifle shots into the figures within five seconds...
...longtime collector of British painting, Mellon acquired most of the works in the show in the past three years, picking them up not only at auctions but directly from the owners of England's stately homes, to which his wide acquaintanceship in British society gave him access. He sprang the collection on the art world as a stunning fait accompli, and museums everywhere are now vying to show it; Virginia got it first because Mellon is a trustee of the museum and a Virginia resident. The show opened with a banquet for the museum's Collectors' Circle...
...Young Americans for Freedom, Advance,and the new Republican research group made up of Harvard and MIT assistant professors and graduate students (the Ripon society) all sprang up in recent years from individuals connected in some way with Young Republican clubs. These organizations may now have little to do with Young Republicans, but Young Republican experience helped stimulate their formation...
Tourist Flood. After World War II, many small hotels sprang up in Europe, often in new spots favored by the shifting vagaries of tourists. Few grand hotels went up: they were considered a thing of the past. Some of the biggest cities of Europe-London, Paris, Rome-were underbuilt, and though the hotel service is often better than in the U.S., the furnishings are often shabby and the bills padded by extra service charges and taxes. Opening in June, the 400-room Cavalieri Hilton, stretching across Rome's highest hill, Monte Mário, will be the city...
...Stora Kopparberg-a great subterranean copper "mountain" of unusually pure copper ore located among the gloomy forests of central Sweden. Toward the end of the Dark Ages, when copper was needed to arm Europe's growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted a charter setting up a corporation of master miners. The largest copper supplier...