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Castro was in Santiago de Cuba to celebrate the July 26, 1953 attack on Moncada Barracks that signaled the start of his revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista. He was determined to put on a show for the 30 U.S. newsmen invited over to view the proceedings, and so he did. Carpenters had nailed together triple-deck bunks and thrown up small tent cities to handle the 100,000 campesinos trucked in for the occasion. Streets were hung with posters and gaily colored banners. All day and night, reported TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold, streets were clogged with peasants in gay carnival...
Ballet of Baseball. At Santiago's "Sports City" stadium, two days after Fidel's appearance at the plate, some 1,000 boys and girls in dazzling white snaked their way through tortuous drills, finally spelling out "July 26." Then, in a hilarious pantomime, 640 youngsters filed onto the field to symbolize beisbol as it is under the dread imperialist yoke -going through the motions of batting, pitching and running in agonizing slow motion. But wait! Now came the revolution-and the youths were happily scampering around like Little Leaguers. "The sport of yesterday was commercial and a means...
...eastern city of Santiago, where Castro started his revolution, the visiting newsmen were treated to the kind of is-everybody-happy circus that Communists specialize in. Though the Cuban economy goes from bad to worse (this year's sugar crop may not equal last year's 3,800,000 tons, only half the pre-Castro harvest), Santiago restaurants were filled with food; bands played, and carnival crowds were on parade. In high good humor, Castro drove through the streets, chatted with local officials, even sidearmed a few baseballs to two of the reporters in a local stadium...
...Coming Market. Under the Alliance for Progress, the U.S. has given Latin American nations some $85 million to improve airports and navigational facilities. The way things are growing, many more millions will be needed. At last week's Santiago meeting, the experts recommended the preparation of more and better statistics on Latin American passenger and cargo traffic, a bigger push for tourists and a stronger bid for more Aliania funds...
...sooner was the Times interview in print than Castro wired 25 U.S. newspapers and magazines, "cordially" inviting them to send representatives to Cuba to witness the country's July 26th anniversary celebration in Santiago in eastern Oriente province. Most of the big-city papers were included, from the San Francisco Chronicle to Boston's Christian Science Monitor. TIME and Newsweek were invited. But no Miami or Scripps-Howard papers were on the guest list, nor were any of the television networks...