Word: workmen
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...relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave-save only military-age youths and possibly some technicians Castro wants to hang on to. By week's end the U.S. had asked Pan American to act as carrier, and Castro workmen were enlarging and improving the Varadero airport. Camarioca, said Castro, was being closed to all exile boats from Florida. Those boats already in port -and there were more than 100 of them-were to load up and shove off immediately...
...employed at the Harvard Coop as a stockboy and have often loaded or unloaded Coop trucks on that stupid platform. I think it is a hinderance to the workmen and it should not be there. However, the fact remains that all Harvard Coop trucks park on the platform...
...copies at $2 each. For art collectors, the Spanish pavilion has listed a 47-inch, 16th century painted wood sculpture of the Virgin for $11,590, and the Philippine pavilion is offering to the highest bidder twelve hand-carved acacia-wood panels that depict Philippine history and took 30 workmen more than a year to make. The Philippines also want to dispose of a 70-ft.-high Oriental-style restaurant, and Guinea wants to get rid of its voodoo tom-toms, native spears and a 40-ton air conditioner (all for the best offers...
...tornado and poverty. Not so in the cities. New Delhi crowds danced in the streets at the rumor of Indian victories. As antiaircraft guns in Amritsar opened up on Pakistani planes, citizens cheered each white puff in the blue sky, shouting "Shoot him down! Kill him! Kill, kill, kill!" Workmen put up baffle walls in offices as protection against bomb blast, shopkeepers pasted strips of paper to window panes, husbands and fathers dug slit trenches outside their homes. As hospitals were hurriedly emptied to provide beds for expected wounded, Indians queued up to donate blood. The capital's mood...
Last week's most widely circulated rumor originated in Miami with the Student Revolutionary Directorate, which claims wide underground contact inside Havana. On July 27, goes the story, Castro was returning from Santa Clara in a motorcade, and had just reached Havana when a group of "workmen" along the road whipped out guns and began firing away, killing a guard and a chauffeur. In some versions, Castro was wounded; other versions...