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...believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers of help from readers; some 2,000 students paraded through the city to raise funds. A man who said he was too poor to send money sent a set of tractor gears. In nearly...
Elsewhere, reactions were mixed. Roseland, a staid, family waltzery near Broadway, banned La Pachanga because it feared for its floor. Freddy Alonso, an El Morocco bandleader, played pachangas but reported sadly that someone had knocked over a table while essaying the stomp. It is "just not El Morocco," according to one patron, to wave one's handkerchief while pachangaing...
...sits, boys," cried the boss of the tugs. "Blow your horns!" The spirit of the occasion even moved the staid Queen Juliana. She tossed her purse to a surprised cop, waved away courtiers clucking in alarm, waded ankle-deep in the construction-site muck to reach the ladder and clamber to the top of Caisson...
Latest radio pirate is Radio Nord, an American-owned, 20-kilowatt pirate radio station operating from a converted German freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord...
...great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices, pushing fingers of land out into waterways and interlacing them with canals so that everyone can moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks that staid real estate men frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says...