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Double Usurpation. Back in Havana, Batista and his boys tasted the first fruits of victory. Soldiers' pay was doubled, police salaries were raised 50%. Three portly colonels, retired when Batista left the presidency in 1944, were observed at a tailor shop being fitted for new uniforms. A lieutenant (j.g...
Lack of central direction has not kept the Churches of Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene...
Mating Night. Early in September, when all the young bats were airworthy, the population of the grotto doubled to more than 650. The newcomers were males. Dubkin sensed procreation, but nothing happened for a while. Then one day (night, that is, for the bats) he noted a "nervous tension." The...
Nobody has kept Broadwater, 56, a sharp-tongued South Carolinian, from making money. In his 2½ years with Capital Transit, profits have more than quadrupled, dividends have doubled. Recently Broadwater raised them again (by 40%). In fact, he and his friends have found an unsuspected gold mine under Capital...
An M.I.T. graduate who got his start in the Depression washing kettles for the Campbell Soup Co., Bunker moved to the Wilson meat-packing company as an engineer in 1934, did a stint as head of the industrial engineering department, and became manufacturing vice president for the Kroger Co. Then...