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...sites in their new airparks. Last week Atlanta Industrial Designer H. McKinley Conway Jr., who has planned several airparks, flew to Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park in Fresno, Calif., has solved even that. Owners of its 105 residential lots can land on the community airstrip, taxi up to their homes, then park in their own planeport...
...embarrassing news reached Castro atop Pico Turquino, a 6,560-ft. mountain in the Sierra Maestra, where he started his revolution nine years ago. He was there, improbably enough, to award diplomas to 426 medical students, climaxing nearly a week of hoopla calculated to revive his people's flagging "revolutionary fervor." For four days and nights, students and friends had hiked up the mountain with the bearded dictator.* At one point during the trek, Castro called for helicopter delivery of 1,000 quarts of ice cream for his weary followers. Tons of food, TV cameras and electrical generating equipment...
...then some. "My only fault of any gravity," Che's letter continued was in not having trusted more in you from the first moments of the Sierra Maestra, and not having understood your qualities as leader and revolutionary. I have lived magnificent days. I thank you for your lessons and your example.' As for Che's young wife Aleida and his three children, whom he left behind, "I ask nothing for them because the state will educate them and give them enough to live on." Out front in the audience, as Castro read the letter was Aleida...
...days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas. He was Cuba's first economic czar, running the national bank, then the Ministry of Industries...
...Cubans have tried to stay and fight - usually small bands of desperate men operating in the central Escambray Mountains and in Castro's old Sierra Maestra stamping grounds. They face the full might of a 200,000-man army (plus 100,000 militia reserves) equipped with the best of everything Russian, including supersonic MIG-21s based outside of Havana. They also face Raul Castro, who used to be quite a guerrilla fighter himself but now heads the counterinsurgency operations and treats it as rather a sport...