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Also, through a stroke of luck, we lost some of our most dedicated rooters. The neighbor of one of the women connected with the Radcliffe gym has season tickets on the fifty yard line, which were generously donated to about six of our staunchest supporters. Ordinarily, this would be fine--we could see them and they could hear us and maybe their enthusiasm would be contagious. BUT, the seats were on the side of the field where the players sit; directly in back of the Boston bench, in fact...
...this may explain why Castro ordered citizens to turn in their weapons by Sept. 1 and began purging all but the staunchest Castroites from his government. "When it is possible to have a technician who is a revolutionary, so much the better," said Castro over the radio. "But when there is no revolutionary technician to take the post, let it be filled by a revolutionary cadre member, even though he is not a technician. It is necessary to have a revolutionary attitude toward problems...
...soon begin their annual exodus abroad, cut ting into Britain's reserves as they eat and drink their way across the Conti nent. A bigger worry to Britain's money managers, however, is the extent to which the country's reserves will be drained by its staunchest foreign allies in the monetary battles-the nations of the sterling area...
...This fiasco of the new Kennedy Administration in April 1961 is blamed in retrospect by State Department officials on a storm of "angry world opinion" that scared off the U.S. Government from carrying through the overthrow of Castro it had secretly planned. Yet some of the U.S.'s staunchest allies were (unofficially) more appalled by the U.S.'s display of faint heart...
According to gossipy Communist sources outside Bulgaria, it all stemmed from a plot aimed at removing tubby Premier Todor Zhivkov, long the staunchest friend of Moscow in all Eastern Europe. While General Anev's men occupied the capital's key bridges, communication centers and the airport, other plotters-supposedly to be led by Todorov-Gorunya-were to invade the Central Committee and arrest the eleven-man Politburo-including Zhivkov. But Soviet counterespionage agents got wind of the coup just in time...