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...just try keeping the old hunter away from his guns. During the first break in the official proceedings, President Tito of Yugoslavia rushed pell-mell into the wilderness to take a few crack shots at East African wildlife. At the end of his safari, Tito felled a three-ton male rhino, a 21-ton buffalo and a "huge" lion...
...Nixon's antipollution proposals is to force industry to pay the full social cost that its production entails. Businessmen worry that Government may force them to spend so much so quickly that it might impair the financial health of some companies. For a while at least, a ton of steel or a kilowatt-hour of power will probably cost consumers more if the manufacturing process avoids pollution. On the other hand, makers of anti-pollution equipment may well enjoy a bonanza (see following story). There may be fewer autos in cities but more mass transit...
Since the program was launched at a party plenum in December, the official press has been full of astounding reports: a ten-mile irrigation canal was dug in the Dibra district in eight hours, 49 five-ton tractor trailers were turned out of a truck plant in twelve hours, an "assault group" cut 1,137.5 cords of wood in seven days...
Aside from a few journalists and hijacked airline passengers, about the only Americans who have visited Cuba in recent years were 216 youths who journeyed there last fall, intent on helping Fidel Castro to attain his goal of a record 10 million-ton sugar harvest. Last week the 216 docked at St. John, N.B., and another 600 young militants boarded the same ship to replace them. The achievements of the first group may prove difficult to duplicate. Taking the name Brigada Venceremos (rough translation: the We Shall Overcome Brigade), they worked alongside Cuban workers, including, on one occasion, none other...
...London; once beat Ernest Hemingway in a nose-measuring contest; purposely keeps his gold Bulova set eight minutes fast; dined alone with the Trumans their last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork...