Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hills. For the first time in the two-year conflict, Castro moved his GHQ out of the Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered...
...managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells Are Ringing-plus their movie version of Auntie Mame. And last week, for the first time in years, the old partners triumphantly reappeared as performers in the funniest...
...friendly reporter, tough, cigar-smoking Bishop Dibelius, 78, pointed Up the gravity of the situation by citing one East German town of 20,000 in which only three of the 200 eligible children were confirmed-all the others participated in Youth Dedication ceremonies. "Obviously," said Dibelius, "the church is not simply going to write off these young people...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Adapted from Pierre (The Bridge over the River Kwai) Boulle's novel, Face of a Hero should at least prove the novelist's versatility as it switches from the Far East to small-town melodrama in the U.S. South. With Jack Lemmon, James Gregory and Rip Torn...
Leads for this year's Drumbeats and Song production of Wonderful Town were announced recently by Louise N. Bell '59 and Susan M. Colt '59, directors of the show...