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...week before leaving Cuba I was taken to the headquarters of the political police to meet Dr. Alvarez Cambra, who was responsible for my physical rehabilitation. Cambra was the author of statements published in a magazine interview maintaining that I had been examined by the best Cuban specialists and that their diagnosis confirmed I was suffering from "deficiency polyneuropathy." They took me to a sports field, and Cambra explained to me that I would, in a very short time, recover the ability to walk straight and that it was a question of readaptation of the brain. Then, during a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Castro's Prisons | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Communist Party headquarters in the north. They are infuriated by the way the Communists have tried to seize national power despite their poor performance in the elections. In Rio Maior, furniture was tossed from the party headquarters' windows, doused with whiskey, and set aflame; at Vale de Cambra, a Molotov cocktail reduced the headquarters to a shambles of broken glass, ashes and charred posters. A Communist Party member in Estarreja who strayed too near a crowd trashing the headquarters was so badly beaten he was hospitalized; at Aveiro, a soldier was killed (accidentally by a fellow soldier) while protecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Drawing the Battle Lines | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

DECEMBER-Trial Run. In Santa Clara, Calif., Jackie Cambra, 6, started down his chimney, got stuck, finished the trip with aid from firemen, wrote to Santa Claus: "Use the front door or window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Trial Run. In Santa Clara, Calif., Jackie Cambra, 6, started down his chimney, got stuck, finished the trip with aid from firemen, wrote to Santa Claus: "Use the front door or window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Fellow Felons. In Newport, R.I., after Mrs. Frances Cambra complained that a thug had snatched her purse while she was playing the slot machine at a club, cops seized the machine, then went looking for the two-armed bandit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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