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...predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer, how many he would hit. Nightly newscasts in Israel included Maris' personal box score for the day, and papers in baseball-happy Japan begged U.S. wire services for interviews with the Yankee slugger. Even when the Yankees made their 26th pennant mathematically certain last week, the news ran second to Maris' 59th homer...
...Stepping into his 26th-floor office in the American Telephone & Telegraph Building on Manhattan's lower Broadway, Eugene Johnson McNeely, 60, was greeted by a fresh sign on the door, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. For the third time in his 39-year telephone career, McNeely succeeds to a job previously held by Frederick R. Kappel, 59, who moves up to the company's long-unoccupied chairmanship and remains chief executive. McNeely, who joined the Bell System straight out of the University of Missouri Engineering School ('22), will supervise engineering operations, marketing and personnel. An energetic perfectionist...
...days, Fidel Castro had been promising Cubans a big surprise on the July 26th anniversary of his unsuccessful 1953 attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's regime. The great day came and went. No surprise. Said Castro, in his best who-me? manner: "The revolution does not have to await a date; revolution is a process." Apparently he had decided, perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised...
...eighth anniversary of his 26th of July movement, Fidel Castro prepared to take some final formal vows to Communism. His old revolutionary party would be merged with the Cuban Communist Party, and his scribes were writing a new constitution officially proclaiming Cuba a "socialist state." All this was being tied in with an anniversary celebration at which the principal attraction was to be Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...
...star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes in Latin America...