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A winter that kids ought to recall

I hope that many years from now people who are little kids around here today will dismiss excited reports about winter weather and say, "Ah, this is nothing. Why, back in ought-eight and ought-nine … "

 
 

Lift ban on Cuba

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 31: Fifty years ago, rebel forces captured the city of Santa Clara in central Cuba, sending the island nation's dictator, Fulgencio Batista, into a New Year's Eve panic. He fled for exile in the Dominican Republic. A week later, a bearded 32-year-old lawyer named Fidel Castro marched triumphantly into Havana to claim his prize.

 
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