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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...spite of the report-and the fact that fire broke out in one school in January-Boss McCoy's successors firmly opposed closing the schools. Mayor Lawrence A. McCarthy complained of foreigners poking into Pawtucket's business, and suggested darkly that if this sort of thing went on, there would soon be demands to tear down every school building in the state more than 50 years old. Not until the state board of education finally approved a compromise did McCarthy & Co. give up. Last week the order went out to close nine schools and to put the displaced...
...what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine's characteristically pious style ("Beware the Newest Abortion Menace"), the article was a sort of do-it-yourself commentary on a new antileukemia drug (retail price: $4.50 per 100 pills) that ended pregnancy in eleven of 15 women selected by doctors for therapeutic abortions. If convicted, Confidential and its distributor could each be fined...
...later hounded by false charges of espionage and embezzlement. He spent ten years as respected Professor Lewis Corey at Antioch College (he died in 1953). Fraina was one of those children whom the revolution not only devours but forgets it ever ate, and this sort of thing, Draper wistfully notes, is tough on a historian...
Finally, the bases of political compromise among members of the Government must be re-established. Parlimentarians, ministers, and party leaders will have to yield their positions in the interests of positive policy-making. Principle must bow to practice, if any sort of effective action is to be accomplished...