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There is little to prevent Trujillo from calling his turn. Last fortnight's embargo on truck and petroleum sales by the Organization of American States is largely ineffectual; the ban does not affect Trujillo's principal income earners, sugar and coffee. Trujillo has also just about completed the destruction of his only serious opposition at home-the educated upper and middle classes, which nearly brought off a coup last January...
...industry. They refuse to advertise on radio, TV or billboards, because they consider it inappropriate. The brothers, like almost all the religious businesses, have long been exempt from taxation. But a new clause inserted in the tax laws in 1950 left their status in doubt (though it did not affect most other church-sponsored business). To escape the ambiguity of their situation, the brothers shook up their business organization in 1957, have been paying full federal taxes since...
...danger of a serious incident centers around Guantanamo, the last major U.S. holding in Cuba. The U.S. made it clear that the closedown of its embassy does not affect the treaty under which it holds unlimited lease to the naval base. Castro is sure to provoke incidents there. As a first step, the U.S. expects Castro to cut off the base's water supply, piped in from a river five miles away on the Cuban side of the fence. Stored supplies of water have been increased to 11 million gallons, enough to last 20 days. And in a matter...
Fats & Coronaries. Ordinarily, the human liver synthesizes only enough cholesterol to satisfy the body's needs-for transportation of fats and for production of bile. Even eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods, eaten in normal amounts, says Dr. Keys, do not materially affect the amount of cholesterol in the blood. But fatty foods...
Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry (TIME, Cover, July...