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To the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, it was pretty much the same old story: in nearly 30 years as a correspondent covering the political turmoil of Latin America, he had been mauled by Peronista hoodlums in Argentina, threatened by Panamanians, and beaten by Communist thugs in Guatemala. Last...
Dubois, 49, had been quite a while in earning the hatred of the Cuban mob. Among U.S. correspondents covering Castro, few had written more warmly during the early days of the revolutionary regime (Castro, reported Dubois, "has a deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled...
But then the campaign against Dubois began losing its comic aspects. Several weeks ago Havana's Radio Mambi started carrying, at 15-minute intervals, pleas for loyal Cubans to contribute their centavos to buy a huge bucket for Dubois to soak his head in. Anti-Dubois signs appeared on...
With that sort of talk, it could not be long before the Havana mob went after Dubois. Last week, as he sat writing a story in the downtown office of the American Cable & Radio Co., the throng appeared. Came the chant: "Do we want Fidel?" The answer: "Yes!" The question...
A Streetcar Named Desire, the better of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, forced director Rabb out of the realm where he belongs. Determined to find a "new" interpretation, Rabb supplied a long program note full of fuzzy theorizing and such ideas as: "Awe is antithetical to pity. Pity is indecisive...