Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity to meet him came as he was wending his way toward the pool-side bar to make a short speech to the American students of Operacion Amistad, a government and Havana University sponsored program which brought 200 members of the National Student Association to Cuba free of charge. My public relations girl grabbed me firmly by the wrist, plowed through his retinue of friendly brigands and their assorted hardware, and deposited me in front of Fidel...
DRINKING ON PLANES will be curbed by Federal Aviation Agency. New rules will bar drinking from private flasks aboard airliners, forbid hostesses to serve whisky to passengers who appear "intoxicated...
...Addis Ababa, jodhpur-wearing Ethiopians can sit in the King George bar and read the news flashing a la Times Square across the top of the Modanova department store. And in Haile Selassie I Square, Volkswagens and Fords jostle for position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million...
...Cubans did not bar Dubois from the country. They just threatened to cut off his food. At the suggestion of a Havana radio commentator, the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers, whose membership includes cooks, waiters, barkeeps and hotel staffs, voted to deny Dubois their services "because of his attitude as spy, divisive agent and sworn enemy of the Cuban revolution." Snapped Dubois: "If they want war, I'll give them...
Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli, the San Francisco lawyer who has made being struck by an automobile almost as profitable as striking oil, unsettled the American Bar Association Convention at Miami Beach (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with a "special seminar." His lecturer: "Professor O'Brien," a Buddha-faced little man in a $285 suit, who solemnly told the 100-odd lawyers present: "I probably got more courtroom experience than any of you guys." Expounding on income tax, O'Brien advised the barristers that the only way to come out even is to "borrow money from your friends." As other...