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Harangues & Ice Water. In most cases the prisoners lack adequate water for drinking and sanitation. The men get no medical attention, often sleep on wet dungeon floors, are lucky to get one meal a day. There seems to be little physical torture. Castro uses the Communists' more subtle psychological methods. Loudspeakers din the dictator's speeches over and over; uncooperative prisoners are plunged into ice water, shifted back and forth from brightly lit cells to black solitary confinement, questioned for endless hours. The VIPs (very important prisoners) are sometimes forced, Chinese-style, to dig their own graves before...
...baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over their heads. Sanitation was so bad in Havana's overcrowded Morro Castle that several prisoners fell sick. Doctors among the prisoners set up a makeshift dispensary in a dungeon once used by Spaniards for garrote executions; other prisoners held in a dry moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater, the militia used dogs to guard 5,000 men and women. The dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into...
...with guitar lightly cradled in her arms, her moon face impassive, her eyes coolly remote. The number for which she is most famous is Water Boy, an old Negro work song, but she has in her repertory some 200 tunes, including This Land Is Your Land, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bum, Pay Day at Coal Creek. She is a keening Irishwoman in Foggy Dew, a chain-gang convict in Take This Hammer, a deserted lover in Lass from the Low Country. Her dark, handsomely pliant voice has none of the whisky rawness long idolized in such untutored folk...
...Alabama-born singer who works out of Chicago and has become a favorite with the campus crowd. Originally trained for opera, Odetta first achieved fame with her version of Water Boy, has a repertory of some 200 sad, bawdy and fanciful songs-Bald-Headed Woman, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bums-all of which she delivers in a dark, handsomely pliant contralto with none of the whisky rawness of untutored folk singers...
...Iron. In February 1928 Betancourt and his friends organized a week of student protest. An intense, curly-haired young man in black beret and spectacles, Betancourt delivered an impassioned anti-Gómez speech in a movie theater. Four days later he was thrown into a Gómez dungeon, clamped in 96 pounds of leg irons...