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Less than seven weeks after he restored personal freedoms in Cuba, President Fulgencio Batista snatched them back again. Last week the eighth suspension of constitutional guarantees since Fidel Castro began his revolt 15 months ago renewed for 45 days the government's power to censor the press, disperse public meetings, raid homes without warrants, jail citizens without charges...
...only daily that outdid Capriles' papers was Roman Catholic La Religión, which refused to run a single line on the dictator's "me-or-nobody" election victory.) Publisher Capriles got so deft at smuggling innuendoes past the censor that Security Police Boss Pedro Estrada once bawled at him: "We are going to blow up your building...
Liquor Out. In the Caracas press corps there were other seasoned censor dodgers, including such photographers as LIFE'S Joe Scherschel and A.P.'s Charles Tasnadi (see cut). Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over...
Self-Centered. In Canberra, Australia, the Customs and Excise Department, censor on all printed matter brought into the country, banned its own staff magazine when it had the cheek to run an article declaring that the agency was at its "lowest...
...egregiously bad films to be shown in Cambridge in recent years. The plot is muddled, disjointed, turgid, improbable; the entire production, heavy, unamusing, and completely pointless. It is, in all, a careless potpourri of violence and cheap melodrama interspersed with frequent sex scenes as raw and explicit as the censor will allow...