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...CARLOS PRÍO SOCARR...
Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
Unprecedented as it was to arrest a former chief of state and then to put him under heavy bond besides, there was little doubt that Prío had openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four...
After the Mamaroneck affair, the State Department passed word to Prío to be more careful and stop abusing U.S. hospitality. Too busy with his plotting, Prío brushed the hints aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...