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...year-old warrior entered the capital just a week from the day his 26th of July movement tumbled the dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista. Word that he was coming spread like wildfire and Havana residents poured into the streets. Castro's headquarters will be at Camp Columbia in a Havana suburb...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: President DeGaulle Pledges Self To New France at Inauguration; Havana Citizens Welcome Castro | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

...finals, he looked like a winner. He was two up after eleven holes. Coe confessed to being "mentally fatigued" and looked worn-out physically. But Charlie Coe has the stuff of a champ. Doggedly he put his swing back in joint, and poured on the pressure. By the 26th hole, the Georgia kid was three-putting greens, wallowing in sand-traps, ricocheting off trees. Coe eased his aching bones home to win, 5 and 4, by dropping a 25-ft. putt on the 32nd green. "I'm a lot tougher than most people think," said Champion Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie's the Name | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...bespectacled Navy airman from Ames, Iowa. He had a .45-cal. pistol and gunbelt given him by his captors. He practices fast draw with the rebels, said he is 'just like one of them.' Further in the hills, I reached a main rebel headquarters, where the 26th of July [rebel] flag flies, a clerk typist pounds out war orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway.' On the 4th of July the rebels served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Caught in a War | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...24th round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising-no boy has won since 1954-ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...caught a crab 200 yds. from the finish and was lofted into the lake. Without him, Harvard finished third behind Penn, while Yale, as expected, set a lake record for 2,000 meters: 5:54.4. 26th annual survey of football fatalities prepared for the Football Coaches Association. Over the years high school games have been the biggest killers, October the worst month, and the first five minutes of a game the most dangerous. Tackling has been more dangerous than ball carrying or blocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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