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Fidel Castro, who had already milked the whole business for far more than it was worth in propaganda value, refused to come down on his latest demands, sent a ten-man prisoner detail back to the U.S. to negotiate some more. He blamed the committee for trying "to confuse North American public opinion and the prisoners' own relatives." By that time, even the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee had had enough. It declined to enter into further negotiations. The sputtering tractor deal coughed and-hopefully-died...
...busy looking after his herds of 25,000 cattle and his growing family (three boys and one girl). Last week, as Britain started Bechuanaland on the road to self-government, the man the British banished was on the road back to power. Seretse took office as a member of the 35-man Legislative Council that will run Bechuanaland, subject to British veto, and was appointed to the ten-man Executive Council that will function as a Cabinet...
...accusations came at a meeting of the executive committee Tuesday to consider Alberg's proposed ten-man slate of Club delegates to the Massachusetts Council of Young Republican Clubs on April 15. The list omitted two-time delegate Howard J. Phillips '62. Phillips had been "front-runner" for chairman of the state Council and was opposed to Alberg's prospective candidacy for Chairman of the College Service Committee of the National Young Republican Federation...
...ten-man tractor train will head for the South Pole from Byrd Station in the Ellsworth Highland, exploring unknown mountains and marking the 800-mile route with bamboo poles thrust into the ice each 1/5 mile...
Bargaining between James Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, and General Electric on a new contract was-as usual-stormy and tough. Once the ten-man G.E. team stomped out after Carey cussed out Chief G.E. Negotiator Philip D. Moore. Last week Carey's demands for more than G.E. was willing to offer had got himself and his union into a strike neither really wanted. Snapped G.E.'s Moore to Carey at one of the last sessions: "You think there is something else coming. Well, there isn't now, next week, next month...