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...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
Eighty years ago last week, on New Year's Day, 1864, Jorge Agustin Nicolás de Santayana was christened in Madrid. This week he published his autobiography...
Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life. His brilliant playing was always eccentric in technique and in emotion it was usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy...