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...where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week. Lavender city buses cruised lazily down Avenida Sucre, where the Nixon limousine was trapped...
Into the Lair. Betancourt began by wooing the military in its own lair-the marble, mahogany, and gold-crusted officers' clubs built as a form of bribery by Pérez Jiménez. He offered not bribery but calming talk: "The armed forces are indispensable for the republic." He insistently hinted that the day of the bloodless, predawn coup had ended...
Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...
...must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar del Rio Urgency Tribunal...
...Faustíno Pérez, a bearded Gramma survivor, traded his uniform for natty civilian clothes and the title of Minister for Recovering Stolen Government Property. As a start he took inventory at Batista's estate outside Havana-mansion, movie house, museum, library, $4,000 lamps...