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...Woodrow Wilson's illusions about "a war to end all war,'' called for diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia in 1917, and advocated birth control-in an area whose champion father sired 34 offspring. It badgered local officials into passing and enforcing some of the most stringent pure milk, water and meat ordinances in the state...
...have cut off our trade," he said, "and that's why we work in the OAS and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba." Gaining Their Chains. Cuba was obviously feeling the economic squeeze of inept Communist management. Castro last week froze wages, invoked stringent penalties for absenteeism. The $293 million in the treasury when Castro took over has now shrunk to $5,000,000 in foreign exchange. Looking for help, Economic Czar Ernesto (Che) Guevara was dispatched in a hurry to huddle with Soviet Premier Khrushchev...
Some prefer regular accounts, but for the really nervous there is nothing quite as safe as a coded number account, since nobody but a Swiss bank's director and one or two top officers ever learns the identity of its owner. So stringent are the rules protecting depositors-bankers who violate them risk 20,000-franc fines ($4,577 ) and six months in jail-that relatives of Iraq's King Feisal could not touch his account after his assassination, and Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron is still unable to get at the $60 million fortune reportedly...
...markets abroad were barely affected by Wall Street's fall or rise. On the frenetic Tokyo exchange, stocks have been depressed for months because of the government's stringent credit restrictions aimed at easing the balance-of-payments deficit. And South Africa has so isolated its economy from the rest of the world that there has been hardly a ripple of reaction on the Johannesburg exchange to Wall Street's recent ups and downs. But gold stocks have begun to rise again because speculators remain unconvinced by President Kennedy's dramatic denial that the U.S. would...
According to Michael, currently conducting an inquiry into Alpert's psilocybin research, the State "harmful drug" law requires that hypnotic or somnifacient (sleep-producing) drugs be given by physicians only. Noting that the Massachusetts law is more stringent than the corresponding federal law, the commissioner said that as far as he was concerned the federal government was not important in this case, and that it "need only provide an army and navy...