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Most of those who have been tried and punished have been members of SIM (Servicio de Intlligencia Militar), probably the most powerful arm of Batista's huge police and espionage force, similar in their operation to Hitler's Gestapo. Often SIM officials would work in conjunction with informers who in return for their services would sometimes be paid a salary or in other cases be allowed to operate certain illegal activities within a particular geographical area...
...Version) Asquith, is a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater. With the bland commercial irreverence that Shaw admired in himself but loathed in his producers, Director Asquith has cast Shaw's pearls of wit among some of the biggest camera hogs in the business. Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones. On the serious side, Director Asquith has had more surprising success. Dirk Bogarde (Doctor in the House, et seq.), best known...
Choose Fidel Castro-the SimÓn Bolivar of the 20th century...
Engineer John Luther ("Casey") Jones highballed the Illinois Central's Cannonball No. 1 out of Memphis an hour and 35 minutes late. His throttle hand urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared...
Died. Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, 55; in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...