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...working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine Republic has turned so much land to sugar production that a rice shortage has developed...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The second of two original Hollywood-produced films to be aired on TV this season. The Hanged Man stars Edmond O'Brien, Vera Miles and Robert Gulp, is a suspense story involving a man's attempt to avenge the death of a friend believed murdered by a union boss. Color. THE DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Dinah and Guests Polly Bergen, Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Ebsen take off on the average American home...
...high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed. As a brigadier general...
...INNER ROOM by Vera Randal. 193 pages. Knopf...
...York City in January decided to adopt Vera procedures for all its criminal courts. Experiments with the system have also been started in eight other major cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy is encouraging federal courts to release more prisoners without bail. Reflects Louis Schweitzer: "There is an old saying, 'nothing is so terrible as watching a beautiful theory being butchered by brutal facts.' But this is one time when the facts came out as beautifully as the theory...