Word: arango
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to New York in 1956, the young Mexican was fascinated by its bustling discount stores, spent most of his time studying their price cuts and pragmatic merchandising. "This is a revolution that is here to stay.'' Jeronimo Arango Jr. wrote his two younger brothers in Mexico City. "We'll go into it when I get back." They did, opening Latin America's first tienda de descuento in Mexico City. Today, having been paid the flattery of imitation by dozens of other Latin American stores, the pioneering Arango brothers-Jeronimo, 37, Placido, 32, and Manuel...
...international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...
...jargon in Castro's speeches and in his captive press these days is increasingly Marxist. Aureliano Sanchez Arango, 53, a former Minister of State of Cuba and one of the early fighters against ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, charges that "while Castro had ideas, he had no program; the Communists gave him the program." The man most responsible is Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 32, an Argentine physician, Castro's best field commander, and a Red. A Castro official recalls that when Guevara returned from a three-month trip around the world in September 1959, "things began to happen." Part...