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...graves of the five soldiers who died defending him. He spoke lightly of the danger he had faced. But some of his henchmen quickly took up the politics of murder. Two lowly oppositionists were found shot to death. another hanged. Far more ominously, former Senator Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, 57, a politico who fought Batista with outspoken criticism, was found in a Havana suburb, his body riddled with bullets...
This was an exaggeration. Though Opus Dei members do not advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...
...much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
...tried to bribe three star players at the University of Maryland, unbeaten and ranked second in the U.S. A Maryland junior named Louis L. Glickfield, who had tried out for the squad and failed, reportedly offered bribes of $1,000 to Center Tom Cosgrove, $400 to Guard Frank Navarro, and, unaccountably, only $100 to Quarterback Jack Scarbath, the team's key ball-handler. Glickfield did not ask his ex-teammates to throw the game with Louisiana State; he just wanted them to hold the winning margin below 21 points, the gamblers' "point spread" on the game. That...
These include Johnny Fields, formerly with Wild Bill Davison, on the bull fiddle; trumpet player Rudy Braff, once with Bobby Hackett's band; and Al Navarro at clarinet. George Wein will be at the plane and Don Scott on drums. Contrasted against Higgenbotham's individual style will be that of Ralph Ferrigno, Boston trembonist now with Max Kaminsky...