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...midweek Castro reminded the guajiros that they were in Havana to do a political job. Railing against the "infamous" foreign press and "foreign plutocrats," he defended his one-man rule as "Athenian democracy" and warned that "the guajiros are here with their machetes to defend the revolution, and their machetes are sharp." Next day Castro's labor leaders closed down the city for an hour with a general strike, "demanding" that he return to office...
...Torrado, 40, an obscure country lawyer. In his old job as Minister of Revolutionary Laws, Dorticós had the humble job of drafting decrees. In his new job (he cut the salary to $2,500 a month), he will be the rubber stamp for Castro's one-man rule-or else...
...wealthy class, have invested in land and property . . . and they now see themselves stripped of their possessions. They are greatly disillusioned." one-man rule. Wrote he: "Premier Castro is avoiding elections in Cuba for two reasons. He feels that his social revolution now has dynamism and vast popular consent, and he does not want to interrupt the process. Moreover, most observers would agree that Cubans today do not want elections...
...ministry, done a hitch in the Navy, and finally crashed Broadway. He earned critical raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima donna in Friml's The Firefly. Still he complains that opportunities are limited. ("I was slated for a part as one of the strippers in Gypsy, but Ethel Merman nixed...
...survey by the infant American Newspaper Guild revealed that a reporter with 20 years' experience was paid an average $38 a week, about half what the unionized printers got, and Alex Crosby, news editor and sole Guild member on the Staten Island Advance, bravely but naively staged a one-man strike...