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Lacking water power, coal or petroleum, Cuba runs on imported oil. For many years, the oil has flowed from Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco wells in Venezuela, traveled in Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco tankers to Cuba, been refined at Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco refineries at Santiago or Havana. It was paid for with dollars earned by selling sugar...
...lovers ran to cover from the concrete sea wall along Malecon drive. The air smelled, as always, of strong tobacco and stronger coffee. Most of the prostitutes and pimps that used to degrade the city were gone, cleaned out by Fidel Castro's moralistic revolution. In eastern Santiago, teen-agers danced in the streets to the latest Afro-Cuban rhythm, a hip-buster called the pachanca...
Clip Joints. In Detroit, a sign in the window of the Varsity Barber Shop an nounced: "We repair $1. $1.35 and $1.50 haircuts here for $1.75.'' Cowed. In Buenos Aires. Aerotrans-portes del Litoral Argentine canceled all flights to Santiago del Estero. where farmers, despite repeated requests and two near crashes, continued to graze cows on the landing strip...
After young Rebel Fidel Castro led a suicidal attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's bristling Moncada barracks in 1953, the man who saved his life was Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes, 77. While survivors of the attack were being hunted down and shot on sight, the archbishop, an old friend of the family, rushed to get guarantees from authorities that Castro would not be harmed if he turned himself in. Last week Castro's old friend outspokenly condemned the Castro government's drift toward Communism...
...Campo, 82, Chilean strongman who forced his way to the presidency in 1927, held office until 1931, was elected to a second term (1952-58) by a huge majority because of popular disgust with inflation but initiated economic reforms only at the cost of his popularity; of cancer; in Santiago, Chile...