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...Translator Enrico Mafficini modeled his dialogue on the colloquial Latin of Plautus (died 184 B.C.), and from the first "Fuit quondam . . ." (Once upon a time), the adventures of Pinoculus move as swiftly as ever. He is set upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...
...bathtubs. In downtown Havana, citizens came to gaze admiringly at an election propaganda waterfall spurting brightly over an aluminum sheet. At week's end unofficial tallies showed 171,828 votes for Castellanos to 119,555 for his opponent, merry Antonio Prío Socarrás, the Auténtico (government) party's candidate, brother of Cuba's President Carlos Prío and the odds-on favorite of smart political dopesters...
Though the Havana mayoralty was the election's juiciest plum, and therefore a sharp setback for the Prío brothers' machine, their Auténtico party cleaned up in the provinces. They won a majority of 66 congressional seats, elected more than 100 of the island's 126 new mayors...
Castellanos had fought the Auténticos with one of the strangest political alliances in the republic's history. Behind him were right-wing Republicans, former Dictator Fulgencio Batista, ex-President Grau San Martin (who is Batista's pet hate) and Cuba's small (140,000 members) Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party). The comrades made the most of the coalition victory. Crowed their daily, Hoy: "We salute the overwhelming victory of national significance of our candidate...
President-elect Prio and the Auténticos also got a majority in Congress. But the minority might be lively. Among the new senators: moonfaced ex-Dictator Batista, who had directed his campaign from a deck chair in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was expected to return to Cuba in September...