People: Sep. 27, 1968

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His 25-acre farm was confiscated, his religious preaching got him arrested nine times, and unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known God's Word, I would have become a boxer." He suffers from cataracts, sciatica and penury, but he has high hopes that his problems will all be resolved when he goes to New York City, where he has three other sons.

A pair of hypermasculine movie stars were in Paris to begin shooting the film in which they play two aging homosexuals. "It's the most exciting picture I've done in years," sighed Rex Harrison of his part in the movie adaptation of Charles Dyer's play, Staircase. "I love it," said Richard Burton, even though he has to wear a makeshift turban because the character he portrays is ashamed of his baldness.

They're burning books again in Red China. Singled out for censure in Mao's land, according to the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta—a potboiler that likes to call the kettle black—are the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Shaw, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Twain, Steinbeck, London, Pushkin, Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Grinning mischievously from ear to ear, Viscount Lin ley, 6, returned to London from a holiday at Scotland's Balmoral Castle with his sister, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 4, and his parents, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon.

Palace officials refused to confirm that the sixpence the viscount was proudly clutching had come from a good fairy in honor of the two front teeth he had lost during the vacation.