Ninety Years of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro is turning ninety on Saturday. It has been a long life, and a most eventful one. He was born on July 13, 1926, three years before the Great Crash and the start of the global depression. Feature films were still silent; commercial air travel was in its infancy; most people who moved around the globe did so by ship; many navies still used sailing ships. The telephone existed, but for instant global communication and news, the telegram was still the thing. Most cars still had to be started with a hand crank.