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Today the official engine of execution at Havana is the garrote, a strangling machine. Up to four years ago Cuba's garrote reposed in the National Museum, shuddered at by thrill-seekers as a barbarous relic of the old Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use by the suave but ruthlessly dictating Cuban who is still President, His Excellency General Gerardo Machadoy Morales. Though of mild appearance and a wearer of business-like tortoise-shell spectacles General Machadoy has been accused of having political enemies thrown to sharks (TIME, March n). His revival of garroting...
...crime which demanded the operation occurred 16 years ago. At that time Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda, then just an ordinary thief, with two friends, entered the farmhouse of Emilia Muniz Garcia, 63. Together they trussed her up, gagged and robbed her. The gag shoved Signora Garcia's false teeth down her throat. She choked, died...
...month ago the escaped Rabano, now a dapper, perfumed Cuban racketeer, was arrested in Tampa, Fla. Five Cuban judges gravely reviewed the 16-year-old story of Emilia Garcia's false teeth, sentenced Ziolo Rabano to death by garrote...
...Eight years ago when I visited China I felt rather hopeless for the Chinese because I observed no cockiness. On the contrary I saw 400,000,000 people floundering around, most of them absolutely illiterate and nobody doing anything to speak of to teach them to read and write. Two or three mercenary revolutions were in full swing and everybody seemed to be taking a fatalistic view of the chaotic situation. The few educated Chinese I talked with complained bitterly of what was going on, but when they were asked why they themselves did not plunge in and do their...
Land of the Soviets, Russian plane making a leisurely west-to-east world tour, landed on U. S. territory last week, at Altu, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, 7,000 miles from Moscow whence the plane flew one month ago (TIME...