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According to Draper, Castro's attack of July 26, 1953, on the Moncada barracks launched the first revolution, which was led from the start by upper and middle class Cubans. They organized and comprised most of the membership of the principal revolutionary organization, the 26th of July Movement. Their program was radical, but democratic, pledging the restoration of the 1940 Constitution. The armed bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned...
Having read with interest your editorial, "Kennedy's Press Ban," in your issue of the 26th, I would like to call your attention to a rather pertinent point in this whole situation...
...slow start this year, but at the halfway mark he found the range. Fed by his linemates, Right Wing Murray Balfour and Center "Red" Hay, he has scored 18 goals in his last 14 games, last week turned his second "hat trick" of the season with his 26th, 27th and 28th goals against the Boston Bruins. "I'm not ashamed to admit it," says Hull. "Murray and Red do the work and I get most of the credit. There I am, all alone and rested. When the puck gets to me, I shoot...
...converted loft on Manhattan's West 26th Street a handful of Communists put to bed another Worker (no longer the Daily Worker), a sickly-looking eight-page tabloid. "Forty-two percent of all plants being operated in the Soviet Union," exulted a Page One story, "were constructed in the last four years." The market for such "news" is dwindling these days. The Worker is a failure, a Red newspaper that is printed but not read. Its claim to 15,963 paid circulation is as phony as its news. At week's end loyal party workers hawk unsold copies...
Last week was a good one for Ivy records. Brown's John Parry caught his 26th pass during the Harvard game, a feat which set a new mark for receptions in one season. His nine catches in the Stadium also established a standard for receptions in a single game...