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...charge was Antonio de la Cuesta Valle, 38, the surest and shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying to overthrow Cuba's Maximum Leader. A sturdy 200-pounder, Cuesta had made ten previous trips to Cuba, taking in men and equipment and bringing out agents for debriefing. Last week, on his eleventh trip, Cuesta's luck ran out. No sooner had the raft put ashore than it was spotted by an antiaircraft battery. Two of the men were killed; the other two made it back to the main boat, but were apparently drowned when the boat...
Their bodies never turned up. The injured survivors-Cuesta and his first mate-were captured...
...Franco's ear. Possibly for the first time, the grievances of Spain's rising middle classes (of whose restlessness under rigid Falange controls the student riots were a symptom) also claimed Franco's consideration. To satisfy them, Franco fired the Falange Party Leader, Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta...
Close-Up. In Tampa, Cigar Manufacturer Karl Cuesta, victim of a series of burglaries, complained to police that the camera he had rigged up in his factory to photograph marauders had been stolen...
Only a handful of friends, relatives, Hearstlings and other servants last week moved through the great halls at La Cuesta Encantada (The Enchanted Hill), midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hearst was up each day at 11 ("he has always kept morning-paper hours," says Son W. R. Jr.) to read the papers and his mail, write the lordly editorials and memos that kept a copy boy running back & forth to the castle's wire room. His editors get no chance to forget that he is still the boss...