Cuba's croupiers made notes on their calendars last week. Harbinger of the tourist season was a Government announcement that gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional will start December 29. horse-racing at Oriental Park January 21. The open season for Cuban assassinations was meanwhile in full swing.
Early one afternoon Speaker Clemente Vazquez Bello of the Cuban Senate, who looked like a retired matador and was a good friend of President Gerardo Machado, stepped jauntily from his house next to the Havana Country Club and into his car to drive to the Senate....
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