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...result, all sorts of plays have been presented on Harvard property, in theaters and House dining rooms. Among them have been a leggy operetta that set one observer talking about "a restoration of paganism"; a steaming drama of the torn-undershirt school; a lurid melodrama of rape, murder, and adultery; and a play about a young man who accuses his mother of making her bed "a couch for luxury and damned incest...
...acre showcase was still a littered building site. "We'll never make it," muttered a French official-and in fact the French (along with the Italians, Brazilians, the Arabs, Moroccans, Tunisians and Spaniards) were not ready on opening day. In the U.S. pavilion one entire exhibit was torn out for being unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies...
...with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
...near the revolution. In Havana beaming President Fulgencio Batista entertained 26 newsman at his 100-acre estate, served them daiquiris and charm, fondled kittens for photographers. But at the very moment Batista was being nice to some newsmen in Havana, his soldiers were throwing others into jail in strife-torn Santiago de Cuba. There, soon after arrival, the Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, NEA's Ward Cannel and Las Vegas TV Reporter Alan Jarlson were herded into a filthy jail and held incommunicado for nearly ten hours. Miami TV Cameraman Ben Silver was imprisoned for four days...
Residents of buildings which will be torn down to make room for the new structure expressed general approval of the projected plans yesterday. The University has been working closely with its tenants, and it is expected that many of them will want to move in on the ground floor of the new building...