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...three neighboring houses in a quiet residential area of the nation's capital. Arrested in the raid were 49 instructors and students, who had been discussing such revolutionary subjects as how to manufacture fire bombs and operate automatic weapons. Among the leaders was a writer named Victor Rico Galan, who works for the Soviet-supported magazine Siempre...
...total of $68.8 million in pay. The federal, state and local governments lost some $45 million in tax revenue. The tourist indus try, expecting one of its busiest and most profitable years, was hit even harder than the airlines, lost an estimated $1.6 billion. Occupancy in leading Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their...
...crooked pipe. "I can't explain why; just say that it is a privilege that has been given to me." During the festival a doctor friend checked the cellist, pronounced him sound but advised him to take it easy. Small chance. Casals, who today lives in Puerto Rico with his attractive 29-year-old wife Martita, receives as many as 250 visitors a day, spends the rest of his time rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers. And on the evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing...
...There. They were lucky, in a way, to be there at all. For one thing, Washington had ruled that the whole squad would have to have U.S. visas to get into Puerto Rico. Since the U.S. has no embassy in Havana, that seemed to take care of that-until a Cuban official showed up at the embassy in Mexico City to get their passports stamped...
...next problem was how to get to Puerto Rico. There is no airline service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade...