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...MANOLO-Schoelkopf, 825 Madison...
...68th. During their youth in Barcelona, Manolo buddied with Picasso, later followed him to Paris. But while cubism whirled around him. Manolo turned to classicism, recalled his native Catalonia with slim-limbed toreros and squat, chunky senoritas. On display are 23 stone and bronze sculptures, plus drawings and watercolors. Through...
Fidel Castro must have laughed till he split his fatigues. Incredibly, disastrously, Manolo Ray, the Cuban freedom fighter who had promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves...
...everyone expected to hear from was mysteriously silent. Manolo Ray, leader of the JURE exile group, had promised to be inside Cuba reorganizing the anti-Castro underground by May 20, Cuba's Independence Day. On the 16th, Miami monitors picked up a brief broadcast purporting to be from Cuba: "This is Ray speaking to all Cubans from free territory." But Ray's lieutenants said it was not Ray's voice. On the 20th, there was nothing but silence from Ray's group. Was their leader in Cuba? A spokesman merely smiled...
...cried that "70,000 sacks of sugar" had been destroyed. Naturally, he blamed "a new criminal, vandalistic act by the United States Government." Two days later, Castro's internal radio reported two more landings-one by Artime on the southern coast, and the other by Underground Leader Manolo Ray somewhere in the north. But exile groups in Miami would neither confirm nor deny the new raids...