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...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
Last week along the Avenida de Mayo, Corrientes and the Diagonal Norte, comfortably overcoated crowds pushed toward late and heavy dinners, late and lusty shows. At La Cabana patrons sampled luscious baby beef, brought sizzling on little grills to their tables. Other restaurants featured other delicacies. Business was good; the best people were satisfied with the direction things were taking. If others in Argentina disagreed, they had no effective way of saying...
Last week a parcel of sporting characters, including No. i Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
Holding most of Cuba's guns, little Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista last week went President-making. So unimpressed was this quarter white, quarter black, quarter Chinese, quarter Indian by the politicos' choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba...
...their heads together. Threatened with a general strike, they gave scant heed to the "revolutionary program" of last September. The big thing now was U. S. recognition. They were still bickering over Batista's candidate when they were jolted out of their chairs by the sound of Cabana Fortress guns. Boom-Boom-Boom -21 times...