Word: atlantica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sort of Sick." Hardest hit U.S. companies are Atlantica del Golfo (with 500,000 acres), the Rionda group (500,000), Cuban-American Sugar Co. (330,000), United Fruit Co. (270,000). But since the law also prohibits anyone from owning more than 995 acres of farm land or 3,316 acres of ranch land, many Cuban operators will suffer. Castro promised that he will reduce his own family's 2,178-acre farm to the new legal limit...
Survival Formula. Like most magazines of ideas, the Atlantic has sunk at times into near-fatal lethargy. In Jubilee (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a 100th anniversary winnowing of Atlantica published this week, Editor Weeks says that his magazine has survived because it has "changed editors more frequently than any other magazine in our field." Says Weeks: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger mind was brought...
...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...