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Riddled by police raids and command indecision, Fidel Castro's rebels more than ever lacked arms and bombs, but still showed plenty of bombast. In an interview with U.S. newsmen, dyspeptic Havana Rebel Chieftain Dr. Faustino Pérez alibied the "minor setback" in the capital as caused mostly by "delayed public reaction," insisted: "Our units are intact." Broadcasting from the clandestine rebel station, Castro unleashed a farrago of nonsensical victory claims, e.g., "There is no rebel patrol that has not scored a resounding success." He added an unlikely atrocity tale: "In the Sierra Maestra peasants' huts...
...scene the mother is bidding the Bridegroom goodbye as he goes to the vineyards. She says, "Go on. You're too big for kisses. Give them to your wife." She pauses and says to herself "When she is your wife." Under Kirby's direction this comes out as sheer bombast...
...bombast-pricking headlines and jokes made by America's free world friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come-in the midst of a delicate experiment...
...sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look, as if defeat would be natural to her." Ruby wanders into a blackberry patch with Frank, a "strange amalgam of cruelty, license, fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed in on her and there was a brief violent scuffle, with Vivian pounding at him, trying to bring her knee up to jab him." Later...
...True Aim. Knowland's troubles, of course, stemmed from the fact that in spite of such bombast as Harry Byrd's, Dick Russell's strategy had been amazingly effective. So persuasive were the Southern arguments that most of the Senate and the President too had completely lost sight of the true aim of the civil rights bill of 1957. Wrote TIME'S Congressional Correspondent James McConaughy at week...