Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urrutia's Cabinet seemed respectable, well meaning, weak on government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works Minister Manuel Ray Rivero. 34, an engineer, was the dapper boss of the Havana rebel underground. He has the most urgent job of all: repairing the shattered roads and bridges to move the $700 million sugar harvest, which starts this month...
Proffering neither judicial explanation nor evidence of displeasure, Chief Justice Earl Warren resigned from the American Bar Association. Mused one surprised A.B.A. official: "I can't figure it out. I think the American Bar Association has been very kind to the Chief Justice...
Agog with glory after his fast tour as a "freelance newsman" trailing Fidel Castro's rebels in bar-bereft Cuba, where his trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights...
Thomas was, as usual, sensational. The freshman high jump prodigy cleared every height through 6 ft., 10 3/4 in. without a miss. Then, after missing his first attempt, he went over the bar at 6 ft., 11 3/4 in. for a new world record, eclipsing the one he set last week...
...they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind. One, "Slava," was a psychiatric...