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Associated Press, the world's largest news agency, last week started a brand-new service: television film news. A.P. was simply giving in to the inevitable. Both of its biggest U.S. competitors, United Press and International News Service, are already deep in the TV news field, provide stations with special scripts and daily news film. In the last few years TV news has become so important that A.P. could no longer afford to stay out. But despite all the money and time spent on TV, the news programs are still far short of the telecasters' dreams. Even newspapers...
...bloodless coup last month, the tough ex-sergeant had toppled President Carlos Prío. Now Prío was in Miami exile; his powerful labor movement had knuckled under to the new ruler; Congress was suspended (on full pay), and Batista was dictator and "Provisional President" under a brand-new set of "statutes" he himself had proclaimed to the Cuban people. Nobody seemed perturbed by the coup, and throngs of other Cubans followed their boss's lead by flocking off to their own carefree weekends, as though they had never had it better in their lives...
...Florida. In 1944, democracy was on the march in all the main theaters of war, and dictators were out of season. In that winy atmosphere, Batista tried something brand-new in Latin American dictator politics: he ran off a free and fair election. His man was soundly beaten. This was annoying, but there was nothing to do but graciously turn the presidency over to the winner, his old colleague Grau San Martin, and get out. Besides, staying in Havana at the time would have been asking for a Tommy-gun clip in the back...
...Egypt, trying for an oil franchise (TIME, Dec. 3). Next, he rushed off to Guatemala, talked of starting a chain of hotels and a gambling resort fancier than Monte Carlo. Last month McCarthy announced plans to sell 10 million shares of stock, at $2 a share, in a brand-new wildcatting company, Glenn McCarthy...
...side by side in the streets hauling away rubble in improvised rattan sledges. Streetcars, blistered, bullet-pocked and windowless, picked their way cautiously along the city's network of trolley tracks; 15 of Seoul's prewar fleet of 150 buses wheezed and coughed along cratered streets. Two brand-new fire engines had just been delivered from Japan...