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...product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...already some $300 million, is expected to reach $800 million by year's end. Food is so short that staples are up 40% since 1958. But that is just the legal price hike. On the thriving black market that has developed in Cuba, the jump is often 200%. Beef costs $2 a lb., black beans $1 a lb., 200 U.S. aspirin $3, an egg 25?. Legal clothing prices are up 100%; used shoes bring $40 a pair on the black market...
...This is a madman's country," sighed Alvaro Alsogaray, who until six months ago had the all but hopeless job of trying to impose austerity on the Argentine economy. So it seemed last week in the once-rich land of beef and wheat. In yet another political crisis, eight more Cabinet members lost their jobs, bringing to 53 the number of Cabinet casualties in the 13 months since President Arturo Frondizi was deposed by the military. In to replace them came Cabinet members Nos. 54 through 56, with five posts still vacant. As puppet President...
...thing any young man might say if he was just 23 and had practically his whole life ahead of him. But coming from Nicklaus, it sent a surge of dismay through the battle-scarred ranks of golf's professionals. In the space of eleven short months. Jack ("Baby Beef") Nicklaus has won the U.S. Open (prize: $15,000). the World Series of Golf ($50,000), the Seattle Open ($4,300). the Portland Open ($3,500), the Palm Springs Golf Classic ($9,000). and the Masters ($20,000). He has collected a paycheck...
While the midfields were letting in five Quaker goals, the offense was scoring only seven Saturday. Munro will undoubtedly be working on new plays to beef up his attack in today's game...