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...beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails (a rye on the rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation. One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East." But his thoughts had not jelled, and he tore...
...Rye, Sussex, England
Family & Early Life: Greatgrandfather was a political émigré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
Though the country is only one-fourth arable, increasing farm efficiency and mechanization have made it self-sufficient in dairy products, sugar, potatoes and most meats; nearly self-sufficient in rye, barley, oats, fruits and vegetables. The capital has been rebuilt with new buildings constructed along baroque lines to retain the city's distinctive flavor. An enormous six-story, block-square office building is rising in Vienna, and more than 300,000 new apartments have been put up, more than replacing the 200,000 destroyed in the fierce World War II fighting. Building has boomed so fast, in fact...