Word: faustino
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Failing it was. The rebels' vaunted, 5,000-man Havana underground stayed mostly underground; at week's end one disgruntled group of rebel commanders denounced Castro's Havana lieutenant, Faustino Pérez, 35, as a "traitor" who refused to order the terrorist attack that was vital to make the strike work...
...harsh antistrike measures were announced, Rebel Faustino Perez, Castro's underground chief in Havana, rechecked his strength. The strike call, widely predicted for last week, did not come. "Wouldn't you think a long time?" asked one Cuban worker. "Batista's men will be shooting to kill." Habaneros hoarded food, staged a jittery run on the banks...
Fangio, meanwhile, was under guard in a comfortably furnished apartment. He had eaten well (steak and potatoes, chicken and rice), and he had slept "like a blessed one." Faustino Perez, Castro's second in command, had come personally to apologize for the inconvenience. The rebels even supplied a radio so that Fangio might listen to the race. But he preferred not to. "I became a little sentimental," he said. "I did not want to listen because I felt nostalgic." Yet Fangio was also fearful that his life was endangered, not by his abductors but by a clash that might...
...swindler, only a poet," pleaded the handsome would-be lawyer Faustino Valentin. Citizens of Valencia, jamming the lofty, oak-paneled courtroom where he was standing trial, applauded lustily, for the swindles that Faustino had perpetrated were just such poems as all their dreams were made of. For 15 days last year, he had convinced them all-and many a harder head into the bargain-that a certain penniless foundling named Maria del Rosario was in reality a marquesa possessed of vast lands and riches. A local bank had cheerfully advanced money to Maria to clothe her new dignity. Maria...
...Faustino bowed low. "Gracias, Marquesita," he said...