Word: fulgencio
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From mouth to mouth in Havana last week the word was passed: Christmas Eve was H-hour for the newest plot to unseat Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. Sailors patrolling the waterfront armed themselves with machine guns, the National Police stepped up its incessant searching of passing cars. But it took a small-town cop in Westchester County, N.Y. to blow the whistle on the plot...
...Cuba, which has more television sets than any country but the U.S. and Great Britain, citizens like to sit down of a Sunday evening and watch a rousing political harangue. This week they got it from Emilio Ochoa, president of the Orthodox Party, which bitterly opposes Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. Ochoa demanded that 500,000 Orthodox youths march on Batista's headquarters at Columbia military camp near Havana "to see if the soldiers will fire." Shortly after Ochoa's face faded from screens all over Cuba, Military Intelligence agents closed in on him and made history...
Cuba's Strongman Fulgencio Batista, making a friendly bow toward his great & good neighbor to the north, announced that a small park on Havana's seawall drive will be officially dedicated next month as "Fourth of July Park...
...Havana harbor, coasting close under the grey, weathered walls of Morro Castle, and set course northeast through the blue Atlantic. At her foremast flew a pennant the Cuban breezes had not played with for seven years: the blue, white, red, yellow and green personal banner of General Fulgencio Batista. Aboard the Cuba was the general himself. He was headed for an Easter weekend holiday with his family on palm-lined Varadero Beach...
Restless, thrice-divorced son Elliott-who announced last month that he is moving to Cuba with his fourth wife, perhaps to pick up a radio network, now that his father's old admirer, Dictator Fulgencio Batista, has taken over again-is Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite son. She addresses him, with maternal pride, as "Darling." She was delighted when he formed Roosevelt Enterprises, a firm which has largely devoted itself to selling her services as a radio and television personality...