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RIFLE in hand, a Cuban army sentry stopped the car carrying TIME Contributing Editor Sam Halper toward the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, peered inside, searched the trunk. Said Halper: "I put on an act of lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer to the mountains, Halper hid in a farmhouse while a sugar-cane train chuffed by, guarded by soldiers riding the cowcatcher. In the foothills he changed to a rebel jeep for the rough ride to Fidel Castro's headquarters. Halper spent three days with Castro and his ragged, fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Spring swept on across the state, wrenching at homes, uprooting trees, blocking highways and railroads, swelling rivers and streams' and sogging levees to wrap up Northern California's wettest winter since 1890. In the majestic High Sierra the storms piled new snow into 20-ft. drifts, marooned 1,000 vacationers in ski lodges and Nevada state line gambling clubs, bogged transcontinental trucks straining across Donner Pass, treated 97 passengers aboard Southern Pacific's crack streamliner City of San Francisco to 30 hours of well-fed isolation in a snowbound snowshed near the pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drenching Spring | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...impenetrable Sierra Maestra, where they had hidden for 13 months, poured the men of Cuban Rebel Chief Fidel Castro last week. Twenty miles out from the foothills, they surrounded the bustling sugar port of Manzanillo (pop. 100,000), attacked and halted Havana-bound trains and buses, burned automobiles, rice and sugar installations, then vanished at nightfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Tough Tactics | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Lieut. David Steeves, U.S.A.F.R., 23, still sticking to (or stuck with) his story of a fast bail-out and slow 54-day ordeal in the Sierra Nevada wilds (TIME, July 15, Aug. 26), was relieved from active duty at his own request, began scrounging for "some kind of flying job." Dave Steeves also has domestic troubles; his pretty wife Rita has left him, sees no hope of reunion because there is "no love" between them. But the crash of his marriage, disclosed Pilot Steeves in this month's Redbook magazine, had nothing to do with the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Plotters. Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra, four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a millowner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote TIME'S Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First Year of Rebellion | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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