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...where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers and into the U.S. naval base eight miles away, Mallin picked up a Cuban fashion...
There were thousands in Boston Garden on Friday night for the Show of Stars for '57. Car-clubbers in leather jackets, sailors without girls, zoot suiters and dungaree dolls--an omelette of teen-age humanity...
...Federation, little Elias first mounted the pulpit-a Pepsi-Cola crate. The six-year-old boy was handsome, dignified; he exuded authority and wore shoes. His mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your fault, sinners, that our Lord died on that cross. He was nailed up there because you have been...
...merely ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur, the crippled, brown-faced, 3½-year-old favorite son of the King, who had brought the boy to seek expert American medical attention at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital (see MEDICINE...
...Marie's hair-greying tale-of being kidnaped, doped, raped and tossed into the California desert night-was as hard to believe as if it had all happened to her before cameras for a Grade B thriller. A Mexican and a Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair sand-matted, some fingernails broken, face cut and bruised...