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...more than a year after he was demobilized from Dictator Fulgencio Batista's defeated army in 1959, skinny Rafael Saavedra supported himself by selling fruit and newspapers in the streets of the city of Santa Clara. In July 1960 he finally found steady work gassing and washing planes for a crop-dusting company at Santa Clara airport. He also found a friend, Ground Crewman Félix Montano Echevarria, 26. Together they dreamed of escaping to freedom and prosperity in the U.S., and Félix, who was taking flying lessons, thought he knew...
...Last Sight. At 6:20 one morning early this month, a Piper P18 duster plane with Félix at the stick rose over Santa Clara and headed into bucking head winds for the Florida Keys. Rafael, shivering in his thin vinyl jacket, was precariously perched half out of the narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara...
...this turmoil may have more to do with fostering creativity than does a high IQ, says Psychologist Goertzel. He also argues that "it is not true that traumatic experiences in childhood invariably lead to emotional disturbances and failure." (Only one of his first 77 cases, Cross Founder Clara Barton, was ever confined to a mental hospital.) His subjects loved their mixed-up homes, mainly rebelled against a mixed-up society...
...Died. Clara Haskil, 65, Rumanian-born concert pianist who made her debut in Vienna at seven, won her first Grand Prix in Paris at 14, later played sonatas with such luminaries as Violinists Enesco and Ysaye, Cellist Casals; of injuries suffered in a fall; in a railroad station in Brussels...
...place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...