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...Batista unwittingly gave Castro his biggest boost: a brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general...
...will be airlines' answer to CAB's request for cut in North Atlantic fares. New service would trim U.S.-to-Europe fares by 20%, but offer only sandwich-and-coffee meals, have 34 inches between seats v. 43 inches on tourist flights. Airlines at same time would boost tourist and first-class fares by about 9%, set London-New York rates of thrift class at $252; tourist $315 (up from $290), first class $435 (up from $400). But CAB frowns on "austerity service" and higher rates, may veto plan...
...Tobacco Co., where he became Eastern sales manager in 1938. After four years in the Navy during World War II, he went to Columbia University with the idea of becoming a history professor, instead joined Benson & Hedges as vice president under his father, whose company controlled Benson & Hedges, helped boost sales of Parliaments from 100 million yearly in 1946 to 2.2 billion in 1954. On Cullman's recommendation, Philip Morris invested $3,000,000 in packaging equipment to put Marlboro in the flip-top box, saw Marlboro quickly flip into the top ten brands...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Another effort to launch the Vanguard rocket will be made today and the deputy director of the project said last night there is "a good chance" that it will boost the American "moon" into orbit around the world. The time of launching was not announced as of last night...
...billion in new jets now on order, the domestic airlines last week pleaded with CAB for a fare boost. Since the airlines' request for a temporary 6% rise in fares was turned down earlier this year, several things have happened to help CAB see things more the airlines' way, including a further drop in carrier profits and the shock of Capital Airlines' recent request for a $20 million federal subsidy...