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...Castro is not bending. Speculation about his worsening relations with Russia increased sharply last week when he announced that his brother, Raúl, Cuba's second-in-command and the island's main contact man with Russia, had been replaced "temporarily" as armed forces minister. Since it is getting $1,000,000 a day in Soviet aid, Cuba could hardly afford a complete break. But the new Russian overtures in Latin America do show that there is a split, and the split is widening...
...Mary Garden, and as debuts go, her magical performance at Paris' Opéra Comique that night might have been staged by her fairy godmother. The year was 1900, and Mary, Scotland-born and Chicago-reared, was an impoverished young soprano who haunted rehearsals at the Comique. Her moment came when, during a performance of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, the lead soprano suddenly collapsed after the second act. Panic-stricken, the director asked Mary if she could fill in. Though she had never sung on a stage before, much less with an orchestra, she pluckily replied: "Have...
...Reds apparently assumed that President Raúl Leoni would respond mildly. After all, other recent terrorist incidents had led him to send out a few additional street patrols, and not much else. But this time, Leoni's army demanded action. Going on nationwide television, the President abruptly placed the country under a form of martial law, announced that he was putting the full force of the military into a war on subversion. Said he: "My government is determined to eliminate the treacherous conspiracy of those who are trying to carry out their adventurers' plans with Fidel Castro...
...list of official visitors. He lined the Champs Elysées with hundreds of the visitors' flags, authorized an unprecedented 101-gun salute and ordered up a 70-car motorcade and a 50-man motorcycle escort. He called for a gala performance by the Paris Opéra ballet company, even summoned Opéra Director Georges Auric to ask him to "do it right for us, because they always do it so well themselves...
Plop No. 2 brings on a parcel of kitchy-kitchy-koo girls for Broadway's standard Babylonian revels. Captain Sanjar, who has dallied with the Princess Barbára, is ordered to trial by her father, the King. He must open one of two doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane...