Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antique dealer and longtime advocate of mutual funds, I wondered whose good taste was responsible for using what looks like an old Staffordshire sugar bowl on June 1 cover. If it belongs to Artist Artzybasheff, I'd like...
Most College students, however, seem content to sip silently the sugar and honey of reassuring slogans, and as the nation's foreign and domestic problems grow in their complexity, a once thriving breed of rugged radicals is dying a lingering death. In the place of vigorous protest and proposals, a majority of today's undergraduates--calling themselves "moderate liberals"--voice either vague satisfaction or, at worst, a perplexed feeling that something, somewhere, is wrong...
Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...
...Reds' national committee met and drafted a soothing statement that "the key approach continues to be defending the revolution." Castro himself said nothing, but the sugar union leaders were obviously doing his bidding. While soft on individual Communists, Castro apparently fears that if the Reds gain a wide popular base, such as labor, they will challenge his position as people's hero...
Despite the fact that they get from France more than they pay back in the form of sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume...