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...overthrew the cruel regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. No sooner had he taken over than Castro turned dictator himself, began slaughtering those who had opposed him. Even in his scurrilous attacks on the U.S., Castro became an idol to many Latin Americans, for they saw him as a heroic nationalist-a symbol of victory by the oppressed...
Even though transplantation of a kidney from man to man is still highly experimental and seldom successful for long, Charity Hospital surgeons had more desperately ill patients needing transplants than there were human donors available. Early this fall they had made an heroic attempt to deal with the shortage by transplanting two kidneys from a rhesus monkey to a 32-year-old woman (TIME, Oct. 25). But after a few days, the patient died. All the doctors could offer Davis was the same sort of slim chance...
...those who feel that they best serve by endowing the scene with their presence rather than by pursuing their convictions, let me simply say that I agree it is a good life. But also a bit like being one of the warriors in the Washington parks. The posture is heroic; the sword is being waved; but, alas, the movement...
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (RCA Victor). Were it not for the likes of Strauss, there would be no proper use for an orchestra as mighty and glorious as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a heroic mood. Here, in a beautifully recorded performance, Leinsdorf, Strauss and the B.S.O. are all at their impressive best...
...story, Mrozek zeroes in on the absurdity of Communist hortatory jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...