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Nine minutes later, TV screens lighted up again, and Castro, chomping nervously on his cigar, told the audience: "He came here to create an incident. Lojendio must leave Cuba within 24 hours!" At a glance from Castro, Cuba's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos shot up to the mike to agree: "The national dignity permits no other solution. This is official!" Solemnly, Boxer Joe Louis, a perennial Castro guest, rose from the audience to praise the rebel soldiers for the way they had "protected" Lojendio from the studio crowd...
...staging is prosaic, dull, and clumsy (if Miss Manning has an analyst, she might ask him about her strange compulsion to make her actors stand in the down left corner with their backs to the persons whom they are ostensibly addressing). The acting ranges from close-but-no-cigar to indescribably painful. Eustacia Grandin, Stephen Aaron, and Jack Rogers have their moments, and all are at least better than the play deserves...
...these are being replaced by a monstrous device called a transrector. Built by Hufford Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., it weighs 121,000 Ibs., costs $750,000. With its two engines and its five-man crew, it can lift a booster from deep underground and brandish it like a cigar. Its massive but sensitive arms can pin an egg down so delicately that the shell is not cracked, yet so firmly that the egg cannot be removed without breaking...
Last week-after Sauve was cut down by a heart attack at 52-the Union Nationale went up for grabs among Duplessis' old lieutenants. By the time cigar smoke cleared, the party had weathered a Tammany brawl for the succession, and the big French Catholic Quebec province (pop. 5,000,000) had a new premier: Joseph Marie Antonio Barrette, 60, a Duplessis colleague for 23 years and Quebec's labor minister since...
...Carolina farm. Poet Carl Sandburg turned 82, allowed that he is hard at work on some stories, more poetry and a second volume of his autobiography. At his home in the English village of Fordingbridge, famed Sculptor-Painter Augustus John, looking slightly like a Dickensian rascal, contentedly chomped a cigar on his 82nd birthday, had great expectations of celebrating many more...