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...started out to be. Two years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs, armed with polished muzzle loaders and supported by cavalry and authentic...
...tin hat of the wildcatter was also abundantly seen in the West Indies. Cuba, which spudded in its first oil well in 1954 and is now a small producer, brought up enough oil this year to supply its own needs for about two weeks. Cuba's biggest investor, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), was also drilling two exploratory wells in Jamaica, where its wildcatting rights cover the whole island. In Haiti, Oilman Mecom and an associate drilled three dry holes, but plan to try again...
Mama from the Train (Patti Page; Mercury). Tin Pan Alley takes a flyer at Pennsylvania Dutch with a humorous twist, e.g., "Throw mama from the train [pause] a kiss, a kiss." The joke is good enough-for a while...
M.N.R. dreamed of tin profits for the government, high wages for the miners, self-sufficient agriculture, development of Bolivia's promising oil potential. Lacking capital, the government took a chance: it printed the money to pay the miners who produced the tin that brought in the dollars needed for development. It calculated that greater farm production (lessening dependence on dollar-bought food) and greater exports of dollar-earners like oil might balance off trade before the boliviano went into a spin...
...through mismanagement, inexperience, selfishness and corruption, nearly all the plans went wrong. Many miners, freed from tin-baron discipline, now work at the shaft faces only three hours a day. A vast above-ground bureaucracy milks the treasury for wages. Worst of all, mine commissaries, begun years ago to provide miners with essentials at subsidized prices, have grown out of all proportion because miners buy commissary goods to resell in black markets. Commissary sales last year were double the entire miners' payroll, and the subsidies amounted to 77% of the cost of running the mines. On the land...