Word: arteaga
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...rigid censorship on the press, as Fulgencio Batista's government did after July's unsuccessful revolt (TIME, Aug. 10), the normal flow of news slackens and nightmare rumors fly ten times faster. One day last month Batista's propaganda ministry announced cryptically that Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana and Roman Catholic primate of Cuba, had been injured in a fall in his rooms. That was news that Havana's papers and radio stations would normally have reported in detail, but under censorship they gave only the bare bones of the announcement...
Cubans naturally found the official story strange and unconvincing; lurid rumors began to spread. Last week Cuba's leading magazine, Bohemia, printed a photograph of Arteaga. Under the picture was the deadpan caption: "The wound suffered by Monsignor Manuel Arteaga on the forehead on the night of the 12th of August in his palace on the Avenida del Puerto. Twenty stitches were necessary to close it, the task being accomplished by Dr. Anido in the operating room of the Centro Médico Quirürgico...
...eyes of Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt, the skintight, low-cut gowns worn at Cuban church weddings are a scandal. "The fashion of impudent undressing," he thundered last week, "has become more prevalent and more indecent among the women . . . not only on the beaches, at dances, and in other profane diversions, but even in such a sacred ceremony as the sacrament of marriage...