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...Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas...
...surface, Athens was calm last week: no new Prime Minister was cho sen, none was dismissed, and the Greeks, who consider politics a national sport easily as worthy of conversation as football, discussed in shops and streets the possible candidates with detached excitement. The very lack of news was impossible to ignore, for unless some resolution was found to the month-long confrontation between King Constantine and ex-Premier George Papandreou, the field lay open to military coup from the right or armed revolt from the left. Young King Constantine appeared more determined than ever to refuse Papandreou...
...point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...conditions. Flypaper hung over the operating table, amebic dysentery was rampant, and blood for transfusions was in short supply. The thousand-bed hospital was so crowded that sometimes two beds were pushed together to accommodate three or four patients. Americans in Saigon quipped that "semiprivate at Cho-Ray means...
...general turns against Tung Cho, gets the girl and saves the dynasty...