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...beat the anti-Castro inmates with clubs and lengths of pipe. The regular guards are even worse. At the Isle of Pines during the Bay of Pigs invasion, all prisoners were herded into the open, stripped, forced to kneel and advised to pray. A prisoner named René Santana prayed aloud that the invaders would triumph; a guard blew his brains out. At La Cabaña in Havana, the guards amused themselves by ordering prisoners outside, where they are stripped, beaten with gun butts and jabbed with bayonets. Among those testifying was a woman whose husband was in prison...
...publicity they wanted, and publicity they got. Some 50 newsmen, photographers and government officials crowded the dock at Pôrto de Santana, a steamy little town on the north channel of Brazil's Amazon delta. Then up the river it came: Venezuela's hijacked freighter Anzoátegui (TIME, Feb. 22). On the deck stood a triumphant Wismar Medina Rojas, 28, and his eight fellow hijackers-all members of Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation...
...beat Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet had come permanently unstrung...
...cameras rolled and Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida, playing in Solomon and Sheba on location in Madrid, recoiled prettily from the evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...
...Humphrey Bogart, lived until he died of cancer in January. "I don't feel sorry for myself," she said, "but there are too many associations. I can't live here any more." Also soon to be up for sale: Bogie's 55-ft. yawl, the Santana...