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Friday. July 24, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from th files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
. 10 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1949 (Sunday)
Gas was discovered as well
as water in well being drilled
by Wes McDonough in Sams
Valley.
Salvation Army building,
corner of Bartlett and Fourth
sts. considered inadequate for
present welfare program.
20 YEARS AGO -July
24. 1939 (Monday)
Medford led its class of
cities in June in the Oregon
traffic safety contest for sec
ond month in a row.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of the Older Girls are
running around battling Old
Sol, with a side-winding um
brella that were all the go
when Victoria was queen."
30 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1929 (Wednesday)
"Work is progressing rapid
ly at the airport with the
hangar nearly completed.
.National park service re
ports a total of 9,940 persons
viisted Crater Lake during
week ending July 20.
40 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1919 (Thursday)
A $25,000 fire destroys J.
-T. Gagnon Lumber mill in
dawn fire blaze.
Demand for rides in Med
ford's single civilian plane
brings request for second pi
lot. 50 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1909 (Saturday)
Bogus check artist who has
been working Northwest
passes first check in Medford,
Fruit experts arrive in val
ley to discuss fruit cooling
and picking.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
' seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The human adult has 32
j permanent teeth; how many
temporary (baby) teeth does
-he have as a child?
2. Kodiak, Alaska, nas a
I climate less rigorous than
parts of New England; true or
false?
3. Name the exploror who
gave the name "Indians" to
the aborigines of America.
4. If you were purchasing
"sewing thread and wanted to
.buy fine thread, would you
choose No. 10, or No. 60?
I 5. Is it at 20, 40, or 60, de-
grees below zero that the ther
mometer readings are identi
cal on both the Centigrade
and Fahrenheit thermometer
scales?
6. Which two of the "Four
Freedoms" espoused by F. D.
Roosevelt are also found in
the Bill of Rights?
7. Which one of these Great
Lakes is the largest in area
Michigan, Erie, or Superior?
8. "Ship of the desert" is a
.term applied to what animal
"that is found in this country
" only in zoos or circuses?
9. In rowing, does one face
the Drow. or stern of the
boat?
10. What are two alterna
tive sDellines of the word
Czar?
. Answer: 1. Twenty. 2. True.
3. Columbus. 4. No. 60. 5. 40
below. 6. Freedom of speech
mw,a worshio. 7. Superior. 8
Camels. S. Stern. 10. Tzar and
Highway Program Threatened
Sometimes the attitudes of congress pass all
understanding.
Such is the case in the national highway pro
gram, which has stopped bid-letting in both
Oregon and Washington, and threatens to bring
the entire national program to a halt within a
few months, unless something is done.
In Oregon, as well as elsewhere, this is seri
ous. The state highway commission is "geard up"
for an extensive road-building program, based
on the earlier assurances of federal funds to pay
for 90 per cent of the interstate highway system
construction costs.
CONTRACTORS throughout the state have ex
pended huge sums to purchase the heavy
road-building machinery they need to bid on the
big jobs which have been scheduled.
The commission itself has hired several hun
dred engineers who, if the highway building
stops, will be sitting around twiddling their
thumbs, or at worst be laid off. If the . latter
happens, the department will have to go through
the entire difficult, expensive process of rebuild
ing its organization all over again, once the
federal funds start coming through again.
This sort of situation is duplicated in state
after state throughout the nation.
THE finance measures designed to pay for the
interstate highway system have not proven
adequate to meet the costs.
There are four principle alternatives:
. 1. To enact measures to bring in added funds
(such as the proposed l-cent increase in the
federal gasoline tax).
2. To issue bonds, to be repaid pvei a period
of years from the existing sources of highway
funds.
3. To tap federal funds other than those here
tofore dedicated to highway purposes.
4. To do nothing (as
whole complicated, expensive, geared-up pro
cram come crashing down, to be followed by a
long-drawn-out and extended program of limited
building which will push years into the future
the completion of the vital highway network.
O
F THESE four, we personally believe No. 1
is the best. It would keeD the hisrhwav pro
gram going, and on a pay-as-you-go basis, would
add little to the inflationary pressures of govern
ment spending because it is not a deficit plan,
1 ill J
and would aanere to tne
tempiated wnen passed
if necessary, we ieei it could De comDinea
with No. 3. for there are p-nod aremments that
since the entire nation, and not just the highway
users as such, benefit from better highways, other
funds could justifiably be used.
We do not. however, like the idea of Tilinep
up more debt, either as
channels, to linance tne program.
As for the fourth choice nothing" it would
be a disaster. Congress
again.
New Habits and TV
Television has been
for decreased movie
sports event attendance,
oi scnooi youngsters, a lowering oi entertainment
standards, and so on and on.
Well, now, there are moments when we'd like
to kick our set right in the middle of its big glass
eye, and to say to heck with it. But at the same
time, it must be conceded that, (1) TV hasn't
done as much harm as some people think or fear,
and (2) that some of the TV offerings (a minor
segment, to Tbe sure) are pretty darned good.
FOR one thing, TV has forced Hollywood to
r improve the quality if not the quantity of some
of its filmed offerings. There is evidence that
motion pictures generally in the past few years
have been of higher quality than ever before
save and except, oi course, tne aoysmai quiciaes
about monsters, spacemen and rock V rollers.
Also on the positive side is the fact that TV
at its infrequent best can be amazingly good. It
can present a new dimension in understanding
of the world we live in, and of its complex prob
lems. That such are so rare is on the debit side.
The fears about such things as declines in
literacy simply haven't come true. Magazine and
newspaper circulations continue to climb, and
libraries are being used as never before. Books,
both quality and "paperback," are selliqg at a
record rate.
AS FOR some of the other alleged "results"
of television, there are other factors at work,
too. Today in this country, more people pay to
attend musical concerts than pay to attend base
ball games. They are joining in sports and related
activities themselves, rather than watching others,
in the millions skiing (both on snow and water) ,
boating, swimming, camping, picnicking, hiking,
bowling, fishing, golfing.
Other millions are enjoying music, either
home-made, or on records. Many millions more
dabble in the arts and crafts.
TV can't be blamed for this. This change in
national habits actually is robbing it of a sub
stantial portion of its potential audience each day.
The change is being wrought bjr the American
people learning to use their new leisure. Much of
the time, .they are doing it constructively, E. A.
at present) and let the
program as iirsr, con-
several years ago.
bonds or through other
should get things moving
blamed for a lot of things
attendance, decreased
a slump in the literacy
Dennis the Menace
LOOK, I'M 60RRy I LOST My TSAIPEff, HBHRY. AfiV I WANT
"YOU TO KNOW IM GOING TO BUY DENNIS ANOTHER VRM .
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
BUTLER'S VENOM
Washington - The amazing
venom of Democratic Nation
al Chairman Paul Butler's con
tinued cam
paign against
the Democrat
ic Congres
ional leader
ship is raising
a crisis with
in his party.
For the fire
upon his own
party troops,
which he had
hereto fore
centered upon that leadership,
has now faUen upon other
powerful , and non-Congressional
Democrats. Some of
these are those whose help he
had sought the most.
In a word, his behavior has
become unexampled in nation
al politics. The Democrats
thus, for the first time, are
being reluctantly forced to
consider an ugly and destruc
tive washing of their own
linen in public only a year
ahead of a climactic national
convention.
In spite of recent Butler
intimations to the contrary,
no faction-least of aU the
moderate faction he has been
discredi ting-has wished thus
far to move for his ouster. If
for no other reason, none
wanted to give him an oppor
tunity to play again his con
sistent role of a querulous
martyr.
NOW, however, Butler's dis
missal is being demanded
by some voices quite outside
the ranks of the moderates.
They are, in fact, within the
liberal group whose favor he
has particularly attempted to
court.
The point is this: Every
body in the party knows that
to fire Butler would be a
messy affair, probably bene
ficial to the Republicans. But
things have reached such a
pass that some believe he
must go anyhow, lest he sim
ply wreck the party.
For Butler .has now been
shown to have adopted a tech
nique of distortion quite sim
ilar in principle to that used
by a few violent right-wing
Republicans in the past. This
sort of thing was repudiated
by the- bulk of the Republi
cans, specificaUy in 1950. But
ler's use of it is being repu
diated now by the bulk of
the Democrats.
Butler is revealed to have
wholly misrepresented Gov.
Edmund (Pat) Brown of Cali
fornia as a Butter backer in
his long denunciation of Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson and the
rest of the Congressional lead
ership. TSE fuU text of a Brown
statement, hurried here
angrily by the Governor to
put the record straight, shows
that on the central issue be
tween Senator Johnson and
Chairman Butler, the Gover
nor supported Johnson instead
of Butler.
This has been the Johnson
Butler argument: Should Con
gress get such half-loaf liberal
legislation-on housing, for instance-as
it can, rather than
invite Presidential vetoes and
get nothing? Or should Con
gress simply invite a series
of such vetoes and thus create
"issues"' for 1960 but no leg
ilation in 1959?
Governor B r o w n's own
comment on this basic ques-tion-a
comment never men
tioned by Butler in proclaim
ing that he had a Brown ally
was this: "I believe, for ex
ample, we must build actual
houses, not just prefabricated
issues." This is almost word
for word what Senator John
son and many other Congres
sional chiefs had already been
saying to Chairman Butler.
THE first responsibility of a
Democratic national chair
man is to raise funds for the
party. The present committee
is 1600,000 in the red. But
William S.
WbiU
S. WHITE
Butler has so far always turn
ed discussions away from such
affairs and onto himself. Spe
cifically, as liberal committee
members from the North have
privately said, he has answer
ed objective criticism of his
work by suggesting that it all
must be a "Southern" or a
"pro-Johnson" plot-even when
the critics have been non
Southern and anti-Johnson.
His presumed aim is to
force the 1960 convention to
choose a Presidential candi
date who is adequately "lib
eral" in Butler's personal defi
nition. But the effect of what he
is doing is to hit at far more
than the despised "moder
ates." It is to hit at the essen
tial unity of aU his party.
And his methods can hardly
be caned, in any definition,
very "liberal" methods.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Communications
Parking
To the Editor:
I read today in the Mail
Tribune
Where off - street parking
will be here soon.
That certainly will be a re
lief, . Less parking meters to give
us grief.
That 'money -grabber, flag
on high,
Hurts as bad as a speck in
the eye.
When a woman goes to buy
a hat,
She , can't haggle, no time
for that-
She has to hurry, in fog or
heat,
To beat the policeman on
his betet.
Take time to have a cup of
tea '
And the flag is waving,
plain to see.
Parking meters have had
their day:
Make room for progress on
its way.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Who's Snubbing Who?
To The Editor: During the
past 23 years, as a resident of
Alaska, I was more or less
isolated, living several miles
from the nearest native vil
lage.. I was happy to be alone,
with an occasional visit to or
from a friend.
In May, 1959, I was forced
to come to the States on ac
count of my health. During
the past three months, I have
read three daily newspapers,
also weekly and monthly
magazines. I have been rather
disagreeably surprised by the
defeatest attitude shown to
ward Russia by many publi
cations. "Yes! Mr. Khrush
chev. No! Mr. Khrushchev."
What in hell is the matter
with us? Why are we taking
such a defensive position?
As a veteran of both wars,
I am truly surprised at our
attitude as I see it. Here is an
example of what I mean: Un
der date of July 21, 1959, a
Portland newspaper printed
these large headlines across
the front page: "Khrushchev
Snubs Scandinavian Lands."
Why not say, "Scandinav
ians Lands Snub Khrush
chev?" This is borne out by
news in the columns directly
below the headlines: "The de
cision was due to the Scandi
navians criticism of the tour.
Swedish and anti - Russian
groups had formed the August
committee against the Russian
visit." Does not this show that
we are definitely on the de
fensive? Why not at least print
the truth? The Scandinavians
did not want Khrushchev In
their countries and they told
him so. Khrushchev then told
them that he was calling off
his tour, thereby snubbing
them. It does not state that
he was frightened by what the
Finns, Swedes or Norwegians
might do, only that "I won't
corns to your house, because
Retired Newspaperman Testifies Before
Senate Subcommittee on 'Age and Aging'
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington (CPD I had
always believed there was an
unwritten law that newspaper
men worked
until they
dropped dead,
or else got
good jobs in
public rela
tions. But a news
paperman who
retired, and
survived the
Frank Eleuar e x p e r lence,
has turned up here as a real
live witness before a Senate
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
Living costs jumped four
tenths of one per cent in June
to hit a new ALL-TIME peak,
the government reported the
other morning. Higher food
prices accounted for most of
the increase, although prices
of ALL major groups and
services except apparel were
fractionally higher.
The cost-of-living index
moved to 12Wt per cent of
average 1947-1949 prices.
THAT is to say:
Your cost of living has
moved up 24V& per cent in
these 10 years. If you'U go
back into your records and
figure it out, you'U be likely
to find that your wages have
moved up cqrrespondingly.
But
Where does that leave you?
HERE'S where it leaves you:
Tt leaves von in the
spot of the captive squirrel
that runs around and around
and around in its whirling ex
ercise cage. It can put on a
burst of speed, but it wUl
stUl get no farther from where
it started.
All the squirrel gets out of
it is the exercise.
117HO is responsible for aU
" this?
WHO IS THE CULPRIT?
F' WE had a pat answer to
that question, we'd have it
made.
If there really was an actu
al, tangible, living and breath
ing culprit, we'd lay violent
hands on him and take him
out and hang him to the high
est tree and thereafter every
thing would be lovely and the
goose would hang high for aU
of us.
That would be SO easy.
THERE is,' of course, a cul-
prit.
The culprit is the inflation
ary spiral. But the inflati6n:
ary spiral isn't a TANGIBLE
thing. It is an intangible.
You can't get a rope around
an intangible's neck.
And
Besides .
The inflationary spiral is a
GLAMOROUS thing. It keeps
prices going up and up. It
keeps wages going up and up.
As long as prices keep going
up and wages keep going up,
we have the ILLUSION of
prosperity. Nobody wants to
you don't want me to come.
Consider yourself snubbed."
What a laugh!
Much has. been written
about this No. 1 Communist
coming to this country with
his retinue. We will then wine
him, dine him and maybe
show him one of our latest
baUistic missiles, or give him
one to take home with him.
We have to be careful not to
offend him, or we will be
snubbed.
I am truly sorry that
Alaska has become a State. I
was there to vote against
Statehood as did many others,
but there was not enough of
us. SO - I'U go back to my
shack in Alaska, break up
what is left of my radio, and
forget about newspapers that
are afraid to offend Mr.
Khrushchev and Co.
"Malemute Slim"
(Owen C. Gearhart)
Formerly of .Homer, Alaska
Camp White, Ore.
Liked Bridge Article
To The Editor: It is with
sincere appreciation that I
read the interesting story of
the Hartman family and the
work that the men have done
with covered bridges in Jack
son county. Discovering these
picturesque gems of our beau
tiful countryside has been one
of my Centennial year pro
jects, and one which never
fails to thrill me as the year
progresses. There may be
some motorists who pay lit
tle attention to a covered
bridge, but the ones whd car
ry cameras are always inter
ested, and must possess some
feeling of gratitude for our
lovely bridges and our de
lightful streams.
My thanks, too, for the many
excellent articles on historical
data which appear constanUy
in the Mail Tribune.
Mrs. J. W. Ojnogene) McCoy
Ol.ong-time subscriber - 45
yGtrs)
311 North Main St.,
Ashland, Ore.
v V
subcommittee studying the
problems of old folks.
The subcommittee, in sena
torial fashion, had talked
mostly about "the aged and
the aging," of whom there are
more every year, and the
various conferences and com
mittees and agencies pertain
ing thereto.
But Paul R. Leach, former
Washington correspondent and
political writer for the Chi
cago Daily News and other
Knight newspapers, came in
to talk about people.
Quit at 65
Leach turned in his press
card 3V& years ago, at age 65,
against the urgent advice of
some of his colleagues who
assured him retirement would
kill him. Since then he has hit
the old folks' trail from Key
West to Honolulu. It hasn't
noticeably hurt him at aU, but
he has learned there is more
to retirement than just quit
ting your job and moving to
Florida.
"I met a man in his 70's
on the shore at Ormond Beach
hang prosperity to the highest
tree.
We keep going around
and around, like the squirrel
in its exercise cage, running
faster and faster, but getting
nowhere much.
Citizens of Moscow Get Rare
View at Bona Fide Republican
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - The
citizens of Moscow are getting
a rare look this week at a
scarce item
a bona fide
Republican.
This item is
even scarcer
in- the Soviet
Union than in
the United
States, which
means very
scarce indeed.
y.vlm C. Wilson ivioscow n a s
been looking over big shot
Democrats for a long time,
beginning back there when
William C. Bullitt became in
1935 the first United States
Ambassador to Communist
Russia.
Bullitt, it will be recalled,
went to Moscow under an
agreement of recognition
negotiated by Franklin D.
Roosevelt. The prime objec
tive of that recognition was
to whomp up a big and profit
able exchange of goods be
tween the Soviet Union and
the United States, the latter
being at the time in a great
depression.
Established The Routine
Maxim Litvinov made the
deal with FDR. It established
the routine of big deals and
broken promises which have
debauched U.S. relations with
Osvaldo Dor tic os Torrado Is
Man of Week, Newsom Reports
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man-of-the-week: The
new president of Cuba, Osval
do Dorticos Torrado.
The place: Havana.
The quote: "Americans
must understand the Cuban
revolution and our objectives.
This is a Cuban revolution.
It is nationalistic."
It was Friday night, July
17, that lightning struck for
Dr. Dorticos Torrado.
For four hours, Fidel Cas
tro had harrangued before the
microphone, with President
Manuel Urrutia Leo as his
chief target. The president,
he said, had been guilty of
near - treason. Urrutia, who
had listened and watched on
television in the presidential
palace, resigned before the
speech was finished.
The ink scarcely was dry on
Urrutia's handwritten resig
nation before Dorticos Tor
rado was sworn in to take his
place.
Hand Picked By Castro
Urrutia had been hand
piced by Castro for the presi
dential assignment long be
fore the final success of his
revolution against the dic
tatorship of Fulgencio Batis
ta in the dawn of Jan. 1, 1959.
Urrutia, as a judge in Santi
ago de Cuba in 1953, had
saved the youthful Casjro
from the firing squad with a
ruling that under the consti
tution of 1940 the people had
a right to revolt against ty
ranny. It was the outgrowth of
Castro's attack on the Mon
cada barracks in Santiago on
July 26, 1953, In which most
of Castro's followers were
killed and he himself jailed.
It was the attack from which
Castro's present movement
takes its name "26 de Julio"
and which is being celebrated
on Sunday.
The ruling saved Castro's
neck but it cost Urrutia his
job. In the years preceding
last winter who seemed to be
getting no enjoyment out of
his surf casting, and I said as
much," Leach told the sen
ators. " 'I'm not enjoying it,'
he grunted. 'Well,' I asked,
'if you don't enjoy it, why
do it?' 'Because my wife
thinks I should," he barked.
"It turned out that he was
not much of a reader, did not
play golf, hired a man to look
after his lawn and flowers,
was bored by travel, yet he
had no income problem. That
man was truly a fish out of
water. He should have started
30 years ago learning some
thing besides the one thing
he did know best - and missed
terribly - his business."
Money Helps
This and other experiences
gave rise to a statement of
principle to be known here
after as Leach's law. This is
to the effect that a fellow fix
ing to give up his life's work
had better be sure he has the
ability to use leisure time:
Money, of which Leach ob
viously has a little more than
the average police reporter,
also is an essential for happy
retirement. But money appar
ently is important mostly
when you don't have it. When
you do, it doesn't help much.
"I have met men with more
retired income than they'U
ever need who were unhappy
because they did not know
the Soviet Union ever since.
Litvinov for example put his
country s name to pledges
that forever after recognition
by the United States there
would be religious freedom
in the Soviet Union. And,
most especialy, he assured
FDR that there would be no
subversive Communist mon
key business in the United
States directed toward the
overthrow of the American
way of life,
There wasn't supposed to
be any espionage, either, and
after the exchange of ambas
sadors between Washington
and Moscow there was to be
an era of sweetness and light
which was to be beautiful to
behold. Republican politicians
had been benched in the Unit
ed States by the 1932 election.
From their obscurity they
howled p r o t e s ts against
FDR's recognition of the So
viet Union.
FDR Was Unimpressed
FDR was unimpressed, and
so far as the record shows,
went to his grave convinced
that he could deal on even
terms with the Russians and,
notably, with the late J.
Stalin. The record also shows
that Stalin could and did out
deal our man from the top or
bottom of the deck. The reli
gious or more pious citizens
rejected the diplomatic ac
ceptance of the Russian
Castro's victory, Urrutia lived
in exile in New York. .
.In once more speaking out
of turn, Urrutia proved two
things.
In Cuba, regardless of
whether Castro himself is a
Communist, it is dangerous
to speak out against Commu
nism. It also is dangerous to say
anything without Castro's pre
vious okay.
Out of this maelstrom has
emerged Dr. Dorticos Tor
rado. Dorticos provided an imme
diate test for newsmen cover
ing Cuban events because he
was a virtual unknown, aside
from the fact he was an or
iginal member of Castro's cab
inet entrusted with the task
of drafting Castro's revolu
tionary lawi and decrees.
Physically, the new presi
dent shunned the beard of
Castro's more earthy foUow
ers, maintaining his mustache.
He wore horn-rimmed glasses
and he was a lawyer who
lived but in Mexico the final
days of the revolt after having
been jailed a number of times
by Batista.
He was a hard worker and
he was Intensely loyal to
Castro. His birthplace was Las
Villas province at the narrow
waist of Cuba, scene of Cas
tro's final triumph which con
vinced Batista he had better
leave.
May Be More Amenable
As the man who had draft
ed previous Castro decrees,
including the controversial
agrarian reform law and oth
ers, he could be counted upon
to be more amenable than
Urrutia. Urrutia, besides his
other sins, had been accused
of delaying some laws by
holding up his signature and
insisting on fuU cabinet de
bate. There was a feeling, how
ever, that Dorticos would fi
nally prove the front man
that Castro needed and that'
what to do with themselves,"
Leach testified.
He claims the evidence, so
far supports his own decision
to quit after 46 years of hard
work. He has kept his home ,
here, and between trips he
writes, reads, takes pictures,
plays cards with his wife,
serves on juries, follows the
Congressional Record, and
even takes time to talk to 42-year-old
reporters who can't
envision surviving to age 65.
Start Saving Early
That's another big problem,
he told me. People don't think
about retirement until it's
time to retire, and then it's
too late. They ought to start
saving early to supplement
what they will get from social
security. They also ought to
learn to do something besides
what they do every day at the
office.
The subcommittee incident
ally hasn't officially defined
the term old folks. In general,
they seem to be people 10
years older than yourself. And
don't get the Leaches confused
with this group.
A lady in Honolulu made
that mistake. She had beauti
ful home sites for sale, on the
side of the mountain, over
looking the sea.
"We have a most delightful
community of old people," she
told him, "and that's where
she lost me," he said.
Communists on grounds that
they were an ungodly lot.
Some months after the ex
change of ambassadors it be
came obvious that not much
profitable trade would come
of the recognition maneuver
and certain sects began to ask
questions about that pledge of
religious freedom.
On Down-Grade Since''
FDR sought in a news" con
ference to establish that the
Communists had so establish
ed religious freedom, but the
idea did not seU and United
States-Soviet relations have
been on the down grade ever
since. Not even when the
United States was barrelling
tons of strategic supplies to
the Russians hard pressed by
Nazi invaders did the Commu
nists play it on the square.
This was the period during
which American Communists
sparked by Kremlin instruc
tions and funds were busy in
filtrating the White House,
the executive department, the
Congress of the United States,
labor unions, religious bodies,
clubs, schools and all else,
especially the hiding-places
for A-bomb secrets.
Ike says Nixon is not going
to the Soviet Union to ne
gotiate. That's a good break
for Nixon. The negotiating
reputation of those Americans
who tangled with the Rus
sians, are, generally not good.
his job was temporary.
Meanwhile, Castro's power
was at a,, peak, and there
.could be Bo forecasting this
unpredictable man who once
casually issued a decree by ra
dio telephone from an ,air
plane en route from Cuba to
Venezuela.
Castro is quick with deci
sions but impatient with de
tails, a fact that some of his
erstwhile followers have
learned to their sorrow too
late.
But for the moment, he is
riding high as proved by the
multitude of his machete
swinging followers who flock
ed this week end into Havana.
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