Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in December 1956, when Batista was firmly ensconced as President of Cuba, and mainly occupied with doing what he could to bolster the sagging sugar trade, Dr. Fidel Castro and a group of his followers made the first landing on the coast of Cape Cruz. The august London Times, which is generally amused by furtive rebellions in South America, took advantage of the occasion to chuckle mildly at the insurgent invasion, and in its dryest patriarchal manner advised the rebels to put down their guns and go home...
...delighted with your three-quarter profile of me in your Dec. 15 issue. Outside of the fact that a used-car dealer is bugging me for back payments ever since you published my income, the results have been most gratifying...
Reasons for Trip. On his one previous visit to the U.S., in 1936, Trader Mikoyan studied U.S. consumer industries, took back with him instructions for manufacturing such U.S. novelties as breakfast cereals and ice cream. This time he is interested in more momentous matters. Officially, he will be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but the guessing in Washington is that Khrushchev sent his right-hand man to talk to President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials, to sound out the firmness of the U.S.'s determination to stay on in Berlin...
...conference's end, as Speechwriter Moos headed back to Washington with a heavily marked sheaf of papers for revision, the President got set to deliver the speech to Congress this week in a setting dominated by the U.S.S.R.'s dramatic emphasis not on budget-balancing but on reaching into space...
...Thanked Soviet Leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Kliment Voroshilov for a New Year's greeting they had popped over by commercial cable, sent back with his return greeting a sharp reminder that U.S.S.R. policy on Berlin was hardly in accord with Happy New Year sentiments...