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White House Huddle. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to put a bland face on tragedy by calling it a minor operation by "a group of courageous men who returned to Cuba determined to do what they could to assist the people in establishing freedom in that island. The affair did not appear to be a full-scale invasion." The man nominally in charge of the battle against Castro, onetime Havana Attorney José Miró Cardona, 58, head of the Revolutionary Council of anti-Castro exiles in whose name the landing was made, flew with the council...
Munro pulled goalie Gil Leaf out of the nets and put him in Bohn's slot at crease-attack. Bob Bland went in at goalie for Leaf, and defensemen Henry Field, Dave Grannis, and Arnie Margoluis took over for the mdfielders...
...Captain Tadhg Sweeney, Hal Loucheim, and Joe Prahl at midfield. Filling the defensive slots will be Dave Grannis, Henry Field, and Arnie Margoluis. At attack, the Crimson will have Woody Spruance, Dave Bohn, and Grady Watts. Gil Leaf will start in the nets, backed by hockey goalie Bob Bland...
Dave Grannis, Henry Field, and Arnie Margoluis will combine defensively to stop the Big Red offensive, and Gil Leaf and Bob Bland will share the goaltending duties...
What remains is to liberate Cuba, and for that major task the exiles do not tell their plans. Despite bland official statements that the U.S. has no attitude whatsoever toward the Revolutionary Council, the fact is that the U.S. helped bring the two spatting groups to the negotiating table. Whatever aid the exiles might get from the U.S. is something else no one is talking about...