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Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...
...Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other end of which were relatives who had already fled Cuba. A Puerto Rican...
...patient but firm, and violators of good-conduct rules are banished-sometimes forever. Probably 98% of the customers are on a first-name basis with each other. And the small-town news at the Pump is far fresher and at least as accurate as that published weekly in the Anchor Bay Beacon. When the price of beer recently advanced from 15? to 20?, scarcely a murmur was heard. After all, that's a small price to pay for such amenities. Dear wife, I'll be home late tonight...
...almost 1 1 p.m. when the unmarked speedboat dropped anchor 100 ft. off the Cuban coast near Havana...
...simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist. At first, when Sylvia was abused, her sister testified, she would "just grit her teeth and shake her head." After young Hobbs, using a heated anchor bolt, branded Sylvia with the numeral 3, she said: "There's nothing I can do. It's on there...