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Juan was in Miami, where he and his parents had gone in 1953 to escape conditions under Batista. While he was gaining an amazing repertoire of mid- and late-fifties rock-and-roll songs, his parents were raising money for Fidel's 26th of July Movement...
...vague at the time. Raul's father was a member of the old Communist Party, and "he always tried to make us see communist ideas. The first day of the triumph of the Revolution my brother and I went out into the streets with the flag of the 26th of July movement and celebrated. But the general idea was hatred of the dictatorship; I didn't have very much of an idea at that time of what else the Revolution meant...
Most of the others came from honor even anticommunist families, of the type that made up the bulk of the 26th of July movement. Juan says frankly. "I was basically interested in music and girls and fooling around. I didn't know what socialism was; I didn't even know what capitalism was." In four years, Hugo would be elected to the Party by fellow-workers in the clothing factory where he worked, but at the time "I always argued with my friends in the pre-Revolutionary Communist Party. I told them communism couldn't work...
...Master of ceremonies John Heyburn presented the Andrew O'Relily Take the Apple Award, named after a Villanova harrier, to Erik Roth for his 180th finish in the 1C4A's. Heyburn pointed out that Roth had come back to earn 26th in the lottery...
...simple, cigarette-smoking depressive are over, however. Our man is just down from the Alps, where he lived and worked with a knot of flagellant priests. He makes it to the end, snatching prisoners from concentration camps, but he has bad pains on the 8th, 17th and 26th of each month, the very days when his ecclesiastical friends used to get out the penitential thongs. To tell how he compensates for these twinges would give away a plot so complicated that the combined perceptions of Mme. Blavatsky and Krafft-Ebing are necessary to elucidate...