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William W. Kates '59, of Eliot House and Amherst, Stephen I. Klass '59, of Kirkland House and Sierra Vista, Ariz., Arthur L. Kopit '59, of Dunster House and Lawrence, N.Y., Bernard R. Kripke '59, of Eliot House and Scarsdale, N.Y., Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Stephen A. Lerner '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Robert W. LeVine '59, of Winthrop House and Newton Center, Robert T. Lewit '59, of Adams House and Orange, N.J., Robert W. McCarley '59, of Kirkland House and Mayfield, Ky., Gerald L. Mackler '59, of Lowell House and West Hartford...
...turned over to civilian courts, promised to restore the right of habeas corpus within 90 days, reopened the University of Havana, confiscated the holdings of 117 firms (mostly construction companies that gave kickbacks to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista). This week, Castro transported the entire Cuban Cabinet into the Sierra Maestra country, where his revolution began, and promulgated his pet law-land reform. He brought along $1,000,000 to make the first farm loans...
...well-oiled customers in the South Shore Room of Bill Harrah's Club at Stateline, Nev. last week had gone into the Sierra foothills with the same single-minded purpose that sent the Forty-Niners up the same steep trail more than a century ago. But there was this difference: the miner stood a fair chance of taking his gold out of the hills; the gamblers stand a better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only...
...Guardia. As the landing craft taking them off to jail in Panama City backed off the beach, Expedition Commander Cesar Vega and his 83 men (plus a 24-year-old Cuban girl) broke into a song that Castro's rebels used to sing in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. The girls of Nombre...
...launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot and plan, Castro's soldiers talk knowingly of landing strips and beaches, of living off the land Trujillo has cut up into agricultural colonies...