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Cuba's country boys came to the big city last week, their feet squeaking in stiff new shoes, their machetes dangling in leather scabbards at their sides, their floppy straw hats tilted back in wonder at the apartment buildings and tourist hotels along Havana's seaside Malecon Drive. Their hero, Fidel Castro, had hauled them to town, 200,000 strong, in an egotistic political maneuver calculated to prove his mass support and scare his enemies. The poor dirt farmers, called guajiros, were delighted to yell their vivas in return for such a show...
...captured tanks, Jeeps, cars, trucks and buses, drew clusters of flag-waving Cubans along every road, was stopped in its tracks by crushing crowds in every city. Castro himself was folksy, eloquent and tireless. "How will we enter Havana?" he asked. "Let me see, we will go along the Malecon and then we will turn up that avenue-what is it called-General something?" The crowd roared "General Batista!" and Castro bent double laughing...
Steak & Fear. Fidel Castro's rebels embarrassed the authorities, but the race went on. Next afternoon the cars were ready, the Malecon that curves along Havana's lovely coastline had been cleared. A crowd of 150,000 lined the broad boulevard. The Cuban National Sports Commission delayed the race for more than an hour while local cops ran down false rumors of Fangio's release. Then France's Maurice Trintignant slid into Fangio's empty seat in a blue Maserati, and the big buckets of power were sent careening around the 3½-mile course...
...Havana's broad Malecon, sweating drivers pushed automobiles toward service stations and into queues that were sometimes ten blocks long. Desperate motorists waited all night to get their ration of three gallons when gasoline pumps opened in the morning. More than half of Havana's automobiles were garaged for lack of gas. Milk deliveries were cut, taxis almost vanished, and black-market fuel sold as high as $1.20 a gallon...
Cuba. Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...