Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first newsmen to slip through the lines last week and reach the Cuban mountains where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers...
...hills of eastern Cuba, 50 U.S. and Canadian citizens were caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant...
...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...
...another sailor was grabbed just outside the base. At the same time, across the island at the northern edge of the Sierra del Cristal, U.S. Consul Park Wollam set off into the hills with a pair of Cuban guides. His mission: negotiating the release of ten U.S. and two Canadian executives and engineers kidnaped by Raúl Castro's men two days earlier from the village of Moa, site of a $75 million nickel-processing plant under construction for Freeport Sulphur Co. (TIME...
Died. Alexander Malcolm Smith, 99, Scots-born explorer and prospector (for oil and gold), who became a legendary figure in the Canadian northwest and Alaska, once blazed an 1,800-mile trail from Alberta to Dawson in the Yukon Territory, later spent some time in a Soviet jail for prospecting on the fringes of Siberia; in San Jose, Calif...