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...basins of slimy water in which the prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal...
...Fire!" The one thing the shift of government would not change was the grisly rhythm of revenge. The trials and executions went on. At Havana's 195-year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad...
...London Times feared that the upstart invasion might unbalance the ancient fortress of classical learning, and one frosty don complained that another half-thousand bicycles would clog the university town's streets beyond unsnarling. But last week, despite the serious reservations of some scholars, Cambridge University took the first formal step toward the admission of a new residential college, to be devoted chiefly to science. The new college will be named for one of its originators, Sir Winston Churchill...
...Dishwasher Camilo Cienfuegos marched a column into the hills of Camagŭey. In December the rebels launched a "battle for Santa Clara"-a city of 150,000 in Las Villas. A column led by Che Guevara quickly took the streets, the Batista army as quickly retreated to its fortress post, and in five days of shooting 60 died...
...victims fed to the sharks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched suave Diplomat Sumner Welles to smooth the way for the unseating of the "President of a thousand murders." Welles began a subtle campaign against Machado inside the army itself, and one afternoon Battalion No. 1 of the Cabana Fortress trained its guns on the yellow-domed palace, whereupon Machado cried: "All right, my boys, I'm through," and flew off to Nassau. A delirious crowd looted the palace, lynched 18 Machado henchmen and terrorists...