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...mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently reinforced...
...threat by the rebels, Batista's regime showed few signs of cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other pilots, willing to use bombs. So long...
...welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts) and touched off subsidiary booms in a dozen supply industries. A good farm and fishery year pushed exports of wheat, cattle and salmon to high levels, kept foreign money flowing...
Editor at Large. The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside. Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
Although attendance in the nation's journalism schools is down to 11,000 students, a 40% drop since the high of 1948, Missouri still has plenty of applicants. Some 300 students are majoring in such subjects as news-editorial, radiotelevision, and weekly and small-daily publishing. Since most of its graduates go to work for small dailies or weeklies-fully 30% stay in the state-the school offers noncredit courses in backshop work. Editors have long since been shown by Missouri; the graduating class annually has four times as many job offers as members...