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Last month the amateurish blue-shirted militiamen outside Guantánamo were replaced by 3,500 spit-and-polish young troops in starched fatigues. Many of them, apparently, were trained in three Czech-and-Soviet-commanded camps nestled in the hills above Guantánamo. More than 25,000 Cuban troops now surrounded the Guantánamo area...
...Portugal, a somewhat amateurish band of conspirators tried to unseat Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. At 2 a.m. New Year's Day, as heavy winds and rain lashed the wheatfields around Beja, 85 miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes...
...Loeb is to be used in can no longer be worshipped. Harvard drama must lose its awe of the Loeb's physical facilities and its accompanying fear of using them to produce anything amateurish. It costs several hundred dollars a day just to keep the Loeb open. It is about time that Harvard got its money's worth...
...Atlanta Inquirer, a Negro weekly, is neither a good newspaper nor a financial success. The paper has the same 15,000 circulation that it started with eleven months ago, and a fulltime staff of only three. It is often badly written, amateurish, and narrow in its approach. As far as the Inquirer is concerned, the only important stories are those involving the Negro's aggressive pursuit of equality. But in this electric sector of human endeavor, the Inquirer is giving lessons to newspapers all over the South...
...week later the friend's wife announces that she is pregnant, the hero is the fa ther, and they had better "bring it off" damn quick. An amateurish abortion at tempt fails. The husband twigs. His broth er and another big swaddie catch Arthur in the dark and wallop the living tabs off him. But a week later the young dog is out of bed again and rolling all over the parlor floor with that pretty little tuffey-apple he met in the bar. Will he marry her? Maybe. Will he stop fighting? "Ever see where not fighting gets...