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Cold Beer. The Sternists threw open the door of the jail, disarmed the guards, directed traffic in the square where a great crowd had gathered. Some prisoners strolled off to the beach for a swim. Others relaxed with prison guards over coffee in a nearby café. Few showed any disposition to escape from the city. "If we left the jail for good," explained one Sternist, "it would only mean that we would have to go underground again...
...week members of the Stern gang, who haunt the Galina café on Tel Aviv's Herbert Samuel Esplanade, had been telling correspondents that they intended to deal with Count Folke Bernadotte. Posters appeared showing Bernadotte's gaunt figure, his hair flying, being kicked out of Israel by a huge boot. The caption read: "Advice to Agent Bernadotte: Get out of our country...
Colombian coffee is good and I have taken it in the drab little cafés on the misty Bogota savannah, in subtropical Gali and industrial Medellin, as well as in picturesque Cartagena, sultry Santa Marta and sandy Barranquilla. But certainly it is not worth ten centavos [TIME...
...real café criollo give me every time the Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
...waited only a few minutes at the designated corner when a most attractive Paraguayan girl came up and greeted me as an old friend. As we walked toward a backstreet café owned by some friends of hers she said she had been given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from...