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When the cops burst into a Hollywood house where blonde, 18-year-old Marti Robertson and a 21-year-old boy friend were smoking marijuana last week, Marti didn't argue with them. "I'm really turned on, man," she cried. "I'm higher than a giraffe's toupee. I started blasting when I was 13." Her two dogs, she confided, like marijuana too. "When the pups were two months old, I'd blow weed smoke in a paper bag and put it over their heads. I did the same for the canary. Sing...
...tossing coins to scrambling urchins. It occurred to one that he could probably climb to the top of the soft, statue in the park; he completed the feat amidst cheers from the youngsters and park idlers. Blearily, he plunked his white hat on the hatless marble head of Jose Marti, the No. 1 hero of Cuba's war for independence. Down below, his drunken shipmates casually relieved themselves among the flowerpots and hedges...
...disgraceful behavior, 200 University of Havana students massed in front of the embassy, fired stones through a window, tried to haul down the U.S. flag, yelled: "Out with the yanquisl" Shirt-sleeved students gave Butler an angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct of several sailors of the U.S. Navy." "Out!" snarled the students as the ambassador...
Storms pass quickly in the Caribbean. At week's end, riotous carnival* parades wound their way once more past Marti's statue in Central Park. The warships, with the three culprits in the brig, sailed for home, while the captains pondered measures to make their men behave as disciplined Navy men should. The conservative press pointed out that radio speakers had stirred the people up in "a hysterical manner." Minister of State Carlos Hevia accepted U.S. apologies. But Cubans would not forget the incident for years; the Communists would see to that...
Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...