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...Castro forces, who they were and how they felt, has long been a subject close to the heart of Contributing Editor Sam Halper, a member of TIME's staff since 1950. Before Fidel Castro came to power, Halper spent three days with him in his eastern Sierra Maestra hideout in April 1958 and there first began to suspect the ultimate direction of this romantic-seeming revolutionary, so quick to execute those he disagreed with. He described Castro then as "democrat by philosophy, autocrat by personality." In recent months so many Cuban exiles have stopped by to see Halper...
...Gangsters' Hideout. Despite its many magnificent drums and tramplings the 350-year-old King James Version might as well be in the original Greek for all the sense most moderns can make of it. In 1946 a group of delegates from the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and Britain's Methodist, Baptist and Congregational churches unanimously agreed that what was needed was not a revision but a completely new translation...
...every nuance of meaning in the old translation was included in the new, that the language was sufficiently dignified for reading aloud, and that the modern expressions used would not be out of date in 50 years. Example: the King James "den of thieves" did not become "gangsters' hideout" only because it was thought that the '20s expression might not last long enough. The compromise: "robbers' cave...
...former professor of philosophy and onetime secretary of France's literary angry man, Jean-Paul Sartre. Hollow-chested, tuberculous Jeanson escaped the police raid that caught his followers. Three weeks after the raid, Jeanson further mortified the police by holding a secret press conference in a Left Bank hideout, where he defended his organization on the grounds that Algerian independence is inevitable and, when it comes, F.L.N. leaders should know that not all French men opposed them...
Earthquake Aid: Propaganda. Pamphlets, manifestoes, films and books pour from Havana to the hemisphere. Brazilian cops raiding a Cuban attache's hideout found posters calling for "Green and Yellow [Brazil's colors] Revolution." Chilean officials, looking through a ton and a half earthquake-relief shipment flown...