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Where Batista's mailed gauntlet was absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In...
Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta...
Most of Europe's major critics and a big-name-studded audience (Poet W. H. Auden, Composer Francis Poulenc et al.) braved a motorboat strike and journeyed by gondola to Venice's 450-year-old Scuola di San Rocco, one of Italy's famed Renaissance religious schools...
In the adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is...
On Ledbury Road, hoodlums worked systematically down the street hurling bricks and milk bottles at every house where Negroes lived. When they reached a Negro bar called the Calypso Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody...