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...immediately if they recognized any criminals among the men. One woman rushed forward to identify Prisoner RamÓn Calviño as a Batista torturer (he was, with 15 murders on his record, acknowledged the exiles), asked to be on the firing squad that executes him. A few brave men defied their inquisitors. Carlos Varona, 21, the son of Exile Leader Antonio Varona, and a paratrooper in the rebel army, coolly asked his jeering captors: "If you have so many people on your side, why don't you hold elections...
EXETER: Roberto Rossellini's latest (it's also one of his best) GENERAL DELLA ROVERE. Vittorio de Sica is a shiftless panhandler who impersonates the General for the Nazis, and is eventually metamorphosed into a man as brave and loyal as Della Rovere had been. An exciting and moving film. Evenings...
...Cuban Air Force. "Before flying their planes towards freedom, these true revolutionaries attempted to destroy as many Castro military planes as possible." The well-coordinated, professionally executed mission was known to the council beforehand, said Miró Cardona. "We have been in contact with, and have encouraged these brave pilots." He added that "military security" prevented further explanation...
...brilliant descriptive reporter with a breezy, intimate flow of language and a sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and brave. Some regarded him as an unconscionable prig-"a robust flower of American muscular Christianity . . . the artistic boy scout," William Rothenstein called...
Stumpy Charles Abraham Halleck strolled into the Speaker's lobby of the House of Representatives wearing the sanguine smile of an Indian brave preparing to scalp a New Frontiersman. "I think we always had the votes to beat this one." said the Republican House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage...