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Laid low by grippe, Strong Man Fulgencio Batista last week wrapped himself in blue pajamas and a blue silk dressing gown and stuck close to the huge master bedroom at his Camp Columbia headquarters outside Havana. But his relaxed manner showed as clearly as his personal flag,* flying from every Cuban fort and armory, that he was boss of the island...
Three days after his lightning army coup (TIME, March 17), Strong Man Fulgencio Batista moved last week from his Camp Columbia headquarters to the presidential palace in downtown Havana. His white linen suit soaked with sweat, his voice hoarse with fatigue, the "Chief of the Revolution" sat at his old presidential desk for the first time in seven years, greeting job seekers, delegations of sugar planters, union leaders and the press. Tired as he was, he grinned a big victor's smile...
Strong Man Fulgencio Batista, at 51 an old campaigner who had overturned half a dozen other presidents in his time, pulled the lanyard at 2:43 a.m. Monday. Aided by younger elements in the army, navy and police force, he achieved complete surprise. With a group of captains and lieutenants he seized control of Camp Columbia, the key army base outside Havana from which he first rode to power 19 years ago. Addressing the troops, he told them he was taking over because the country had lost confidence in the current "ward-heeler government." Batista, who had been a long...
...Agriculture in Ramón Grau San Martin's shaky revolutionary government, he had one experience that he is never likely to forget. When Grau was ousted one afternoon, Hevia was sworn in as provisional President. He lasted one day. When an ambitious young ex-sergeant named Fulgencio Batista, from his stronghold at Fort Columbia, ordered the 21-gun presidential salute cut off at the count of nine, Hevia knew that his term was over. His explanation: "Without authority to enforce my responsibility, I resigned. I firmly believe responsibility and authority must go together...
Since his return from exile two years ago ex-President Fulgencio Batista, 49, has been living quietly on an estate outside Havana. Last week Batista, who gave Cuba eleven years of "disciplined democracy" between 1933 and 1944, announced that he would run for President again in 1952. Said the greying ex-Strong Man: This island would be a paradise if it were properly governed...