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...thud of Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses...
...Territory of Conscience. In far-off Peredelkino, in his fir-and birch-engirdled, two-story dacha 15 miles southwest of Moscow, Boris Pasternak was mute but not inglorious. Against the sky he could see silhouetted the blue, oniontop cupolas of the village Orthodox Church, symbol of the Christian faith that enables his hero, Dr. Yurii Zhivago, to endure the torment, humiliations, sins and tragedy of war and revolution. On the walls of his study glow the illustrations that his artist-father drew for Resurrection by the great Tolstoy, whom Boris Pasternak has called "the territory of conscience." On that territory...
Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
Last week they were still humming, but the far-off foreign drone had risen to a resounding chorus. By the polls, Nel Blu is the hottest song property on the pop music circuit anywhere...
...that they lay moulting and mute in the cellar of the league. Stanley Frank Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury, he should join the select company of six other major leaguers who have broken past...