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...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
...break ground for a 28-story, 1,056-unit cooperative apartment building. In Hong Kong, the foundation for a new 166-room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving Hawaiian millionaire of Oriental descent...
With the resigned air of a man who has no defense but his cigar, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger puffed into Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel last week and faced a panel of critics from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subject for discussion: President Kennedy's press conference...
...Ernie Kovacs Special (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Dutch Masters Cigar sponsors one of its best customers, Comedian Kovacs, in a "visual interpretation" of music from Haydn to Weill...
...Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next to my religion": high tariffs, low taxes, what was good for big business was good for the country. Wearing high-button shoes and puffing a cigar, lifelong Bachelor Grundy was a key man in political backrooms as far back as 1920 when he helped wangle Harding's nomination, remained powerful until he quit politics at 84 in 1947, and lived to see his machine destroyed in 1950 in a bitter wrangle with liberal Republican Governor James...