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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Digging. In Erie, Pa., a funeral procession consisting of a hearse, a black limousine and two mobile units filed somberly from radio station WLEU to the river, dumped in 7,000 rock 'n' roll records...
...partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just the man to get in there and get the merchandise moving...
...handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...
...under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby, "but we're limited in staff and have to concentrate on only the most important cases...
...RETURN OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (192 pp.)-Leo Rosten, -Harper...