Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herter." The cheers and the chants-"Cuba, yes! Yankees, no!"-that followed Che's words are the mood of Cuba today. The familiar grey wood shacks with thatched roofs still stand between the moist green of mountains and banana trees and the dazzle of sparkling sea. Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro. Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine...
...caught the eye of Fisherman Frank Mikuletzky as it nosed toward the fishing boat Doris May III. Suddenly, Mikuletzky shouted as the ZPG gently folded and dropped "like a sagging banana." Aboard the blimp, Crewman Antonio Contreras, 22, heard a blast, felt the airship nose over, and seconds later was fighting his way free into the water. Only two of his mates survived the unexplained crash with him. One crewman died after being pulled from the sea; 17 others drowned in their double-decked gondola under 15 fathoms. Later, the missing sloop was spotted by planes and a submarine...
Reckless, roll-less and rich, the Kingston Trio by themselves now bring in 12% of Capitol's annual sales, have surpassed Capitol's onetime Top Pop Banana Frank Sinatra. Scarcely out of college, Kingston's Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard and Bob Shane are making some $10,000 a week, can pick up a six-day fee of $25,000 any time they can conquer their distaste for Las Vegas-"we prefer a less Sodom-and-Gomorrah-type scene...
...sudser on the air (by three weeks over Ma Perkins), veteran of no husbands but of romances with every sort of fellow from handsome billionaires and hypnotists to psychotics and smooth-talking thugs, cause of a movie tycoon's suicide, a rancher's self-exile to a banana republic, once heard by 4,000,000 listeners on 203 CBS affiliate stations; of hardening of the kilocycles (despite respectable ratings); in Manhattan...
...last year Sutton has toted his tools more than 100,000 miles, most recently to Tahiti, where he dined on raw fish in coconut milk, papaya-banana pudding-and, of course, paregoric. His wife Pat, 24, a former night-club dancer, usually goes along, once traveled abroad six times in six months. Sutton is handsomely rewarded for his peregrinations: from his column, Of All Places, which is syndicated in 35 papers, and from his periodic travelogues for the Saturday Review, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications, he earns some $40,000 a year...