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...packed suitcase, Expert Dodds hurried last week to the palace of Cuba's Provisional President Carlos Mendieta. Since 1928 Cuba has had six Presidents but no elections. Up to last month President Mendieta's long promised elections were scheduled for Dec. 15. No. 1 candidate was Miguel Mariano Gomez, officially supported by two parties including Mendieta's Nationalists. No. 2 candidate was goateed, onetime President Mario Garcia Menocal. A victory of the Gomez coalition over the Menocalistas depended, however, on its receiving the votes of a rebellious wing of the Liberal Party, whose official nominee...
Thus last week did disaster overtake Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) for the fifth time in seven months, the third time in one week. Among the dead passengers on the Milan-Amsterdam plane were Louis Mariano Nesbitt, British mining engineer and author of Hell-Hole of Creation (i. e. Ethiopia), and Arthur George Watts, British artist and cartoonist...
...Theodore Roosevelt was moving out of the White House, a Brazilian army engineer named Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, running a telegraph line through the untracked fastnesses of central Brazil, glimpsed the headwaters of an unmapped river that flowed he knew not whither. He called it Rio da Dúvida-"River of Doubt...
...noon last week Havana's City Treasurer Segundo Curtis, who happens to be a leader of the Radical Revolutionary Party unalterably opposed to President Mendieta and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, walked inconspicuously down the steps of the City Hall and away as if to lunch. Quarter of an hour later police in the corridors heard cries from the Treasury vault, rushed in to open it. Out popped the City cashier and three assistants with a tall tale...
...LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES?Mariano Tomas?Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about...