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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflection-clear second thoughts on current history. A chapter of Cuban history ended the day Dictator Batista fled. Were the facts for an appraisal at hand? Could the course of the new government be predicted? To TIME, Fidel Castro's triumph was a story followed closely from the start. A month after Castro's invasion, TIME reported that "Batista's troops sent to kill the rebels lacked the heart or the ability to do so." In November 1957 a TIME correspondent interviewed Dictator Batista in Havana, met the next day in Santiago with Castro's hunted...
...filet mignon (rare) while 480 paying guests struggled with minute steak. He chatted amiably with tablemates, helped pass along scribbled suggestions from the floor for his own postdessert question-and-answer session to Press Club President John V. Horner of the Washington Evening Star. No sooner did the questions start than radio mikes opened, three television cameras blinked red, and a daytime audience of millions began watching the second live-TV presidential press conference in U.S. history (the first: in San Francisco during the 1956 G.O.P. national convention...
...board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss as you can manage." Fearing for life and limb, skittish London Transport workers appealed for help...
...Faustíno Pérez, a bearded Gramma survivor, traded his uniform for natty civilian clothes and the title of Minister for Recovering Stolen Government Property. As a start he took inventory at Batista's estate outside Havana-mansion, movie house, museum, library, $4,000 lamps...
With this aim in mind, the Administration has requested that Brennan and Blaik start recruiting activities early this spring. "One reason we hired these two men," Bold asserted, "was their experience at finding hard-nosed kids. Also we feel that they are good teachers...