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...heady days after Suez, when Russian MIGs were uncrated in Cairo and Nikita Khrushchev grandly picked up the tab for the Aswan Dam, such a turn of affairs could not have been imagined. But in Cairo last week, big red headlines hit the street. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...purchase of the City Construction Co., a Dallas road-paving outfit. He put up only $20,000 in cash to buy the company, met the rest of the price with an $80,000 promissory note. Then he borrowed to buy up other companies, moved into highway construction, dam building, land development and heavy construction by using his growing combines as collateral against each new acquisition. Gradually his original $20,000 investment pyramided into Tecon Corp., a general construction company that now has assets of $10 million. With it Clint Jr. even took on the ambitious job of removing a hill...
...Crimson got most of its good hitting in the first inning, when it scored five times. Martin drove in two runs with a bases loaded single, and Ravenel brought in one more with a triple as Harvard routed Indian starter Bib Van Dam with four hits, two walks, and a sacrifice...
...tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board as the 5-2 betting...
There were severe and undeniable dam ages. The U.S., for all its sincere talk and offers of bountiful aid, had put on the black mantle of the interventionist and had lost itself many amigos in sensitive Latin America. It shocked others by appearing weak in the face of a small Caribbean dictator and appalled everyone by being both indiscreet and ineffective. "If that is the kind of assistance we may expect in our fight with Communism," said a Peruvian journalist, "then it's high time we stopped being anti-Communist...