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...Castro-admiring magazine Bohemia ran a section titled "What the Soviet Exposition Does not Show," included in it: "The powerful military apparatus to oppress the people, the extremely low level of the popular classes, the crimes of Hungary," The old Auténtico Party, once Cuba's strongest, sensed an issue; in its first public declaration of the Castro era, the party raised what it called "the anti-Communist banner...
Replaceable Cells. Estimating that 96% of auto batteries have to be discarded while they still have one or more good cells, Aut-O-Cel Co. of Des Moines put on sale a replaceable, plastic-encased battery cell that can be assembled in 19 different battery sizes. When the battery goes bad, a garageman replaces the dead cell. Price: $7.47 per cell...
Officially, the army blamed the killings on a falling-out among the rebels themselves, but many Cubans blamed government executioners. The anti-Batista Ortodoxo Party condemned "those in power who want to convert Cuba into a Hungary of the Antilles." The Auténtico Party, which Batista tossed out of power in 1952, blasted "the macabre spectacle of 21 Cubans slain precisely on the day of peace and Christian love, the day of our Lord's Nativity...
...percentage of truth in the Strong Man's charges seemed to make little difference. Seven years of government by President Prío's Auténtico Party had clearly left the average citizen a little cynical about democracy. Few Cubans doubted that administration politicos had taken lavish liberties with the public purse. Last week, egged on by Batista's hastily reorganized propaganda department, the Havana press reported that men around Prío made off with $30 million from last year's $300 million budget. Batista men also charged, without documenting the claims, that...
...Havana's cavernous Sports Palace, 600 shouting, sweat-soaked partisans last week acclaimed Carlos Hevia, 52, as the official Auténtico Party's presidential candidate in the June elections. Next week five lesser parties in the pro-government coalition are scheduled to add their endorsement of President Carlos Prío's hand-picked choice for his successor...