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...army crept from the Sierra Maestra on the southeastern coast to the Sierra del Cristal 100 miles east, then to the foothills, avoiding decisive battle while the muscle grew. Three weeks ago, with rebels holding most of rural Oriente province and total rebel strength up to 8,500, Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara launched the offensive in Las Villas, 150 miles from Havana...
...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...
...Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 70, Archbishop of Palermo, is noted for keen interest in science, inexperience in politics, and personal courage. Once when the famed Sicilian bandit Giuliano was terrorizing the countryside near Palermo, Ruffini walked out alone into the hills and cried: "Giuliano, I am your archbishop and I forbid you to kill...
Lead & Solidarity. The all-out terror lasted two days. The government seemed to abdicate. No administration wants to appear anti-working class. Finally, a platoon of troops and cops ordered by Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu drove the marauders back to their campuses...
...Honduras and Costa Rica, will fly next week to Nicaragua, and then take a side trip to Puerto Rico (for Commonwealth Day celebrations). After last stops in El Salvador and Guatemala, he will fly home Aug. 1. This week he was well into his Panama business meeting with President Ernesto de la Guardia, and surrounded by such security that each day's doings were not announced until the morning of the day they were to take place-and his routes to and from his appointments were not released at all. There was one threatening cloud. Milton had agreed...