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...Cross. His major source of wealth is the family's dairy farm and sugar plantations. Chiari's Blue Star dairy supplies most of Panama's milk, and the sugar plantations give him. a near monopoly on that commodity. (Price of sugar in Panama: 110 per lb., v. 60 in the Canal Zone.) Chiari's father was one of the leaders in Panama's fight for independence from Colombia, soon after built up a fortune in cattle and sugar. When the family fell on hard times during the Depression '30s, Roberto worked on a Panama...
McDermott's victory was not just surprising; it was incredible. In Russia, sport is not just a leisure-time activity; it is a natural resource like uranium-and hang the cost of mining. A pair of top-quality speed skates costs only $12 (v. $75 in the U.S.), and there are 13 speed skating rinks in Moscow alone. Champions like Grishin and Lidia Skoblikova are "amateurs" mainly because there are no professionals in Russia. Grishin is an officer in the Red army, and Skoblikova is a schoolteacher who finds time for some seven hours of practice every day. Even...
Mail-Order History. Between World Wars, Collector Vincent recorded everyone from Lenin to Stalin to Wilson to F.D.R. He developed the famous wartime V-disc for G.I.s to "write" home, set up the multilingual sound systems at the Nuremburg trials and the U.N. Out of all this came a memorable 1950 record, Hark! The Years, narrated by Fredric March, which has been a collector's item selling for as much as $75. Happily, the Michigan State audiovisual center has just reissued...
...Christianity begins in the home," says the Rev. Donald V. Roberts, 36, and for him it is literally true. Last week Presbyterian Roberts conducted dedication services at the first American Protestant church ever organized in Moscow: one room of his new apartment, near Moscow University and the Red Chinese embassy. About 75 people crowded into "Christ Church" for the ceremony, and U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and Britain's Sir Humphrey Trevelyan read Scripture lessons...
...AMERICAN IRISH by William V. Shannon. 458 pages. Macmillan...