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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, such acts are building pressure in Congress for a change in the sugar quota system under which Cuba supplies one out of every three teaspoons of sugar used in the U.S., and at the premium price of about 5? per lb. v. 3? on the free market. This subsidy of $180 million a year to Cuba was once balanced by Cuba's preferential tariff rates. Now Cuba has raised tariff walls 30% to 100%, cutting back its imports from the U.S. by $156 million last year (to $390 million...
...Indians accepted the new gods enthusiastically, but kept the old, and melded the two into a strange religion of their own. Villages had special local deities. Chichicastenango Indians lit candles in the church, then offered candles, liquor and even crosses on a three-foot-high stone figure of the pagan god Pascual-Abaj on a hill behind the church. Santiago Atitlán's favorite was Maximón, a raffish deity with four hats and an uninhibited libido...
...York Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt gave $2,500,000 to the Program for Harvard College, just in time to enable the monumental three-year campaign to top its goal with total pledges of $82,697,470, plus a $5,000,000 dividend of interest and appreciation already earned by Program money in the bank. Explained onetime Harvardman ('07) Vanderbilt: "This drive has acquired an almost romantic appeal for the many who love Harvard...
...Falcon Foundation, a group of air-minded men and present and former Air Force officials, headed by Major General (ret.) Robert J. Smith, chairman of Dallas' Federal Reserve Bank, is financing 20 boys in three preparatory schools this year, all Air Force Academy applicants turned down initially only because of inadequate preparation. Eight current academy cadets rose through the Falcon Foundation's prep program last year...
...students will observe high school teaching, take a wide-ranging weekly seminar in the psychology of learning and the philosophy of education. In the student's second year, the emphasis shifts to a "teaching residency in a selected high school." Unlike unpaid practice teachers, the student will earn three-fifths of a regular teacher's salary. Once a week he will meet with a university scholar to go over problems in teaching his subject...