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...investigating committee last week found Cuba guilty of attempting "to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela through terrorism, sabotage, assault and guerrilla warfare." Venezuela's documented evidence included a three-ton cache of smuggled Cuban arms and a fantastic battle plan for the capture of Caracas by Castro-directed local Communists. Later, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt summoned the ambassadors of England, Spain and France and warned them to choose between trade with Cuba-about $100 million as presently proposed-and trade with Venezuela, worth some $400 million annually. Betancourt also threatened to expropriate Venezuela's Shell...
...victims are young couples with several children. Landlords can rent single rooms most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken...
Aboard the Japanese freighter Oshima Maru, which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...
...cabin cruiser had enough electronic equipment to fit out a small space satellite: hifi, stereo, TV, RDF, ship-to-shore radio, as well as refrigerator, push-button electric anchor, three-ton central air-conditioning unit, and separate power plant. Bored by the waste of time involved in troll fishing, its skipper located fishing holes with his electronic depth gauge, then sportingly set out bait and hook. Sleek and awesome as a jet fighter, as it nosed through the same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat...
...condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three-ton food supply was rounded...