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Last week, after 17 months in prison, long-legged Satira had no trouble in understanding an old Cuban custom. In line with tradition, President Ramón Grau San Martin celebrated the end of his four-year term by pardoning a select list of criminals. Among them: Patricia Schmidt...
...second-floor office, President Ramón Grau San Martin gave his ex-student and fellow revolutionary a heartfelt Latin abrazo. "I've said it many times before and I repeat it now," said Grau, "Prio is well able to assume the direction of the destinies of Cuba." Out in the Parque Central, thousands of excited Cubans tooted more horns, shot rockets into the tropical night...
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...
With such campaigning last week, the gaunt, 6-ft. candidate of the conservative opposition was working mightily to close the 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...
When Strong Man Fulgencio Batista's candidate lost the presidency to hollow-eyed Ramon Grau San Martin in 1944's free elections, Batista promptly and discreetly took a plane for Miami. Since then, backed by a jumbo-sized bank roll, he has sat out a pleasant exile in some of the New World's toniest suites...