Week of August 1, 1953
Cuban army authorities announce that
Fidel Castro
, 30 year-old
student leader at the University of Havana has confessed he
directed the ill-fated rebellion Sunday against the government of
President Gen. Filgencio Batistia. Surrendering in a mountain
area near Santiago, Castro was led into the city prison with seven
other suspects. Castro said he led the abortive attacks on two
army barracks in which 80 men died.
Soviet Premier Malenkov announces that “the United States no
longer has the monopoly of the hydrogen bomb” and the Soviet Union has
mastered production of that super weapon. American officials have no doubt the
Soviets have mastered the secret of the bomb, but doubt its actual production.
Dies - Ohio Senator Robert Taft, who guided the
Republican Party for years at 63.
Just back from an overseas trip - Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt says that Europeans look upon the
investigative methods of Senator McCarthy as
symbolic of Hitler and Stalin. Everyone abroad, she
said was “soberly glad over the end of the Korean
war.”
Chevrolet
begins to
roll out
plastic-bodied Corvettes. A few have
been made as an attractive showpiece
for automobile displays around the
country. A few thousand more have been promised. The company says it could
be many years before plastic autos become commonplace.
A demonstration at a Chicago hotel enabled guests to see who was at the door
via their television sets and to see the food they ordered by telephone. A visitor
calling into the room via house phone could also be viewed by the guest.
The FCC takes a major stride in opening the doors to color television, without
making current black & white TV’s obsolete. Two systems have been in the
forefront of color standardization, but one, the CBS system, can’t be viewed by
the 25 million black & white TV’s now in use without a converter. The FCC plans
to propose a system adopted by the National Television System Committee
