Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the ad's success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel who burrowed into eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains eleven months ago and has since then been plaguing Cuban Strongman Fulgencio Batista with guerrilla warfare...
...Cubans chuckled, the ad only stirred Batista into stepping up his drive to flush out the rebel forces. Government planes attacked at least eight villages near Castro country. Four B-26 bombers and three F47 fighters swooped down on the hamlet of Purial de Pilon a few days after some rebels passed through, strafing and bombing it for 25 minutes; 40 of the 400 townspeople were killed, including 17 women and children who were later buried in a common grave. In Dos Bocas de Cordero, Batista's airmen killed 15 villagers (and eight cows). Planes machine-gunned a peasant...
...Look Here! (Sun. 3:30 E.D.T.) Graff has drawn up another impressive roster: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Edith Hamilton, Jimmy Hoffa, Noel Coward, Jack Kennedy, Ethel Merman, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. He and Agronsky also plan to fly to Havana to interview Dictator Batista via the nation's first "over-the-horizon" TV transmission system, which opened last week. "In every case," says Graff, "we are looking for the real essence of the man. We're trying to show, rather than show up, character...
...captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...other bloody episodes of the anti-Batista war, the Castro men had shown plenty of nerve but little coordination. But by proving he could subvert Batista's well-fed, well-trained military, Castro had punched a worrisome hole in the dictator's armor...