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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners were briefed about what they should and should not say after their arrival in Florida; they were particularly instructed to stay silent about the last-minute U.S. refusal to provide expected air cover over the Bay of Pigs. Awaiting them when they arrived was Jose Miro Cardona, president of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Cried Miro: "All these are my sons. All my sons." In fact, his blood son, Jose ("Pepito") Miro Torra, arrived on the final plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Return of Brigade 2506 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...Miro was one of the few Cubans permitted to meet the planes. Most of the prisoners' relatives had spent the day in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, about 30 miles from Homestead. They gathered, about 10,000 of them, in a joyous mood. They waited and waited. Almost twelve hours passed while Castro stalled. Even after landing at Homestead, the ex-prisoners were kept from their kinfolk while being fitted for fresh khakis and given a roast beef dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Return of Brigade 2506 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...Miro. Dali. Giacometti. Lipchitz. Pollock, and many other famous names of modern art share a common detail of biography: at one time or another they worked at Atelier 17, a studio that opened in 1927 at 17 rue Campagne-Premiere in Paris. Masters though they were, they had things to learn from the Englishman who founded Atelier 17 and still presides over it at another address: Stanley William Hayter. superb technician of the graphic arts and greatest innovator of modern etching. Last week in Manhattan, the AAA Gallery was showing Atelier 17 prints by Hayter and other artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wizard of Atelier 17 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...leaders have also shown up at various international meetings, such as the Helsinki Youth Festival and the Latin American Student Conference, to plead their case. Politically, they oppose the Revolutionary Council of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, which reportedly has the backing of the United States government, and prefer the more leftist leadership of Manuel Ray, now in Puerto Rico...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Cuban Student Directorate in Exile Bears Bloody History of Revolution | 10/30/1962 | See Source »

...high point was the weight lifting. Just as the match got under way one night, four of Castro's best weight lifters coolly walked off the stage of a Kingston theater where the competition was held and sprinted into a waiting getaway car driven by members of Jose Miro Cardona's anti-Castro Revolutionary Council. Several days later, the four and their coach, who had also slipped away, were flown to Miami, where they asked asylum. Said one: "We were just tired of being involved in the stupid struggle that has destroyed Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: Running the Other Way | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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