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...secret meeting with Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Roca agreed to a Batista-Communist alliance (assuring legality for the party in return for organizing a pro-Batista labor movement) that lasted until 1954 when Batista bowed to U.S. pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold the party apparatus together in Havana, rose to power again with Castro. He led the Cuban delegation to last October's 22nd Communist Party Congress in Moscow, at a review got the place of honor next to Nikita Khrushchev atop Lenin's tomb...
...stern disciplinarian,:' and in the tradition of such hard-top Reds, liked to be seen passing out candy to children, inquiring solicitously about the health of party members' families. Perhaps Grobart's most important assignment: the establishment in the middle 1940s of a second Communist apparatus-removed from the official party-in case relations with Batista should sour. When they did, Grobart's alternate team swung smoothly into action to infiltrate the Batista party organization itself. Presumably Grobart is now laying similar plans in case of a successful anti-Castro revolution...
...huge federal building in Bethesda, Md., are free men, but their routine last week was as rigid as a prisoner's. Almost as confining as leg irons were the polyethylene tubes and electric cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce. Even then, the trolley and tubes went with them...
...transfusion-type apparatus to which Schmidt and Baldwin were hooked up last week provides such a change. A pump sends a continuous infusion into an artery in each subject's left arm. In the infused fluid is an infinitesimal amount-1/90,000 oz. per day-of a mysterious and immensely potent substance called angiotensin. Explained Dr. Frederic C. Bartter, head of NIH's hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise...
...originally as a small, tough freighter for lugging supplies to Air Force bases in the Arctic, and named after a northern star often used in navigation, Eltanin was refitted to the Antarctic scientists' tastes. Her holds are stuffed with well-equipped laboratories. Above, she bristles with the strange apparatus that researchers use to draw new knowledge...