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...island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...
Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...booster, Governor G. Mennen Williams, alerted Jack to discontent among Negro leaders. Kennedy sent his family Convair to Detroit, picked up ten prominent Negroes, airlifted them to a conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home in Washington. It was, as one of the Negroes reported later, a "real red-carpet" welcome. "We had brunch on the patio, and there was a subtle punch beforehand-I thought there was gin in there, but I heard it was cognac. There was chicken and some fancy kind of eggs, and there were whites and Negroes waiting on us. Afterward, that man must have...
...Goods Co. canceled $250,000 worth of orders from Japan; a Miami firm sent back 800 Japanese radios in stock. Ohio's Independent Products Corp. canceled an order for 1,700 Japanese bicycles, and Oklahoma City's Bentley Wholesale Co. for 20,000 yards of Japanese carpet. In Yokohama the rubbermaking firm of Hodogaya laid off 288 of its 420 workers after 13 U.S. firms canceled orders for rubber slippers. Two U.S. associations of ceramic importers shot off angry letters to Japan protesting the treatment of Eisenhower. And Elmer Proctor, director of Metasco, the importing division...
...radical new type of internal combustion engine. The news made C.W. stock jump 8| points to the year's high. Later that same week Hurley had another announcement: a 40% cut in the company's quarterly dividend. SEC and New York Stock Exchange called Hurley on the carpet to account for the suspicious timing of the two announcements, and directors grumbled about the damage to the company's reputation. After a sharp drop in profits, Hurley was buffeted by angry stockholders' questions for three hours at the annual meeting in April, finally cried...