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...week long the martial music blared in Havana as Castro attempted to prove to the world that he was master of his own country and not merely a bedraggled and disregarded Kremlin puppet. Units of Castro's bathtub navy put to sea for "maneuvers" while the Maximum Leader himself loped around Havana posing with militiamen. Finally, he went on TV to convince Cubans that he was still the man in charge, the one on whom events centered...
...cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared for the rebellion that followed...
...Eleventh Hour (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Wendell Corey is a psychiatrist in this ex cellent program; this episode deals with a soldier who deserted the Army in World War II and has been brought home for court-martial 17 years later...
...Martial de Villemandy, 35, bounced around Europe and America with his vaudeville parents before they separated. Previously imprisoned as an army deserter, he helped botch the assassination attempt by crashing the car that was to signal the arrival of the presidential convoy...
Ever since he took over 20th Century-Fox a month ago and became Hollywood's newest general, Darryl Zanuck has been playing martial airs to urge his studio into combat. Last week the music stopped and the casualty lists appeared: > Fired were four topFox executives whose brains have been costing the company at least half a million a year...