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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abruptly, Marek Hlasko returned to West Berlin, reportedly approached the resident Polish military mission to ask about returning to Warsaw. After dropping out of sight for a lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...
...Mass Grave. The biggest bloodletting took place one morning at Santiago's Campo de Tiro firing range, in sight of the San Juan Hill, where Teddy Roosevelt charged. A bulldozer ripped out a trench 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half...
...fought the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, March 31), lost all the way, finally had to pay M-G-M a hefty (but undisclosed) price for permission to broadcast it. On the air, it hardly seemed worth all the fuss. Despite a few diverting sight gags-e.g., Benny, in full Victorian rig, standing impassive as ceiling plaster rains down on him-the long-delayed take-off shed more gas than light. One of the rare high spots: when Benny urges his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to take dinner in bed, she screams hysterically...
Seeing nary an appeaser in sight, Jimmy Hoffa quickly backtracked, claimed that Feinstein's plan was a surprise to him. His boys would not try to stop police deliveries, intended to picket "for advertising purposes only." Furthermore, the Teamsters would welcome police membership, only "if they request...
...Stung (Elvis Presley; RCA Victor). Pfc. Presley may be out of sight, but he is never out of whine. His latest message to the folks on the home front: "Ah got stung by a sweet honeybee . . . " If Ah live to be a hunnerd 'n' two,/ Ah won't let nobody sting...