Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the final tally gave Prio 889,000 votes. His Liberal opponent, Dr. Ricardo Núñnez Portuondo, got 608,000; fiery little Senator "Eddy" Chibas got 318,000. The Communists, recently kicked out of control of Cuban labor, still turned in 142,000 votes (about 80,000 less than in 1944) for Dr. Juan Marinello...
...Cuban dopesters figured that Prio, so long as he gave the country good government, need not worry about Batista. A first and major job: driving the grafters from the public trough. When well-meaning friends like Eddy Chibas had gone to Grau and said, "Doctor, they are stealing," the idealistic President had refused to believe it. Prio knows better...
...lead of sleek, smiling Auténtico Candidate Carlos Prio Socarrás, President Grau's own choice to be his successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital and later became Dictator Machado's personal surgeon. Before long he got as deep into politics as Physician Grau...
Guns on the Go. Many of the guns with which Figueres' men fought to victory had been stacked last summer on a finca outside Havana for use against Trujillo. At the last minute the Cuban army authorities seized the guns, and the exped tion flopped. "We waited too long," the exiles say now. Last winter Guatemalan planes began taking loads of flowers to Havana. They flew back by night, carrying heavier cargo. Cases of guns were quietly stowed away in Guatemalan warehouses. Then, when Figueres rebelled in Costa Rica, the guns were flown to his mountain forces. They helped...
Star of the evening was Cuban Ballerina Alicia Alonso, who only five years ago had to quit dancing because she was going blind (operated on three times, she lay flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...