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Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
Intrigue put Khrushchev into power, but he acts as if popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There...
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Hans Hotter, baritone; Viorica Ursuleac, soprano; George Hann, bass; Karl Ostertag, tenor; Franz Klarwein, tenor; Luise Wilier, contralto; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Clemens Krauss conducting; Mercury, 8 sides LP). First complete recording of Wagner's early opera. Performance and recording: good...
...Duke of Windsor, in his Prince of Wales days, used to be the British Empire's most valued traveling salesman and good-will ambassador. Last week Britain had a scarcely less effective good-wilier-as far as the U. S. was concerned-in idealistic, handsome Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary. He arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania just in time to change from tweeds to tails and go to the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria. There he delivered a long, rambling, formless speech on Democracy and the Modern World which contained...
...monastery of Tashilhunpo for 13 years Lamas trained him in the intricacies of Lamaist ritual. At 18 this "Buddha of Boundless Light" was installed on his yellow satin throne, presumably for the rest of his days to guide the souls of Tibetans, while the Dalai Lama, an older and wilier man, conducted its temporal affairs. The ''Buddha of Mercy" proved to be more sinister than merciful. From his intrigues the Panchen Lama fled in 1924, leaving him in full sway in his fortress-palace in Lhasa until his death four years ago (TIME...