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...Year of the Firing Squad, there was one man the Cubans could have any time: Herman Marks, 39, Castro's first Lord High Executioner who commanded the guns in 200 executions, more often than not personally delivering the pistol coup de grâce to each victim. Born in Milwaukee, Marks was arrested 32 times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach...
After signing a property settlement (terms undisclosed) with Playwright Arthur Miller in Manhattan, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe flitted off to Ciudad Juárez for a south-of-the-border, quickie coup de grâce to their improbable four-year marriage. Marilyn sounded little upset by her sudden move. "I would love to have a plate of tacos and enchiladas" she said...
...this 100-year-old novel proclaims it to be "undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks, and needs, a scholarly...
...care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year for togs at famous Parisian houses, such as Cardin, Grès, Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy. She buys avant-garde models, added Women's Wear breathlessly, and most of the big designers keep a Jacqueline Kennedy fashion dummy close by for fittings...
...Silesian city of Zielona Gora-which was Germany's Grünberg until Poland took it over after World War II-a truckload of town laborers pulled up one morning last week before a onetime German Evangelical Church, used since the Polish takeover as a Catholic parish house. As the workmen set about tossing out furniture to convert it to a community center, beshawled women clutching their rosary beads gathered and shouted imprecations. Soon husbands and sons came up, and a crowd of 5,000 was marching on the police headquarters. When somebody began to throw stones...