Word: cabana
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...Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, overflow customers were checked into beachside cabanas. Said the Roney Plaza's general manager, Jack Mitchell: "The nearest toilets are halfway down the promenade, so we've equipped each cabana with other arrangements. We're calling it 'The Cot 'n Pot Club.'" The Fontainebleau was embarrassedly forced to house Peace Corpsman Sargent Shriver in a cabana beside the huge pool. Other Fontainebleau guests were roughing it aboard a fleet of yachts and houseboats tethered in nearby Indian Creek...
...route Che had picked up a "secretary," an attractive, high-cheekboned Cuban girl named Aleida March. When Che took over his victory headquarters-the commandant's house at Havana's La Cabana fortress-Aleida was with...
...Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, whose Cuban TV rating was once up to Paar, fled to U.S. exile because, he said, Castro is now a "prisoner of pro-Communists." Inmates in Havana's filthy Principe Prison rioted twice, setting fire to bedding, and relatives of political prisoners in La Cabana Fortress learned that 30 Castro gunslingers, in a predawn raid, had ordered the prisoners stripped naked, then had jabbed them with bayonets and beaten them with clubs and rifles. Castro's bag of political prisoners: 6,000, or three times the peak number under Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
Guevara, a slim asthmatic who keeps a glass inhalator close at hand, becomes the country's economic commissar (while holding onto his auxiliary job as commander of Havana's Cabana Fortress). The son of an Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure...
...with all the bang of a wet firecracker. The movies themselves were such drabs that even critics from the Communist press panned the Communist entries. Worse yet, bikinis were bigger, scandals were smaller, and most of the stars stayed away. Desperate news photographers finally invaded Elsa Maxwell's beach cabana in the forlorn hope of finding someone to shoot. But Elsa turned back the attack with a barrage of pillows and a trumpeted battle cry: "Away! Away, dogs!'' As for the festival, said Elsa, casually hamstringing an infinitive: "It's the most horrible thing to ever hit Venice...