Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kittredge was a hale, hearty man, who chain-smoked cigars to save on matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...
Batista nonetheless has maintained control; the army remains firmly in his hands. Eusebio Mujal, Cuba's top labor leader, is a Batista man; he was instrumental in halting Castro's threatened general strike last week. Castro's guerrillas have made no friends by burning millions of pounds of sugar cane--a senseless waste of the island's natural resources that angers many Cubans...
...Contributing Editor Sam Halper toward the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, peered inside, searched the trunk. Said Halper: "I put on an act of lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer to the mountains, Halper hid in a farmhouse while a sugar-cane train chuffed by, guarded by soldiers riding the cowcatcher. In the foothills he changed to a rebel jeep for the rough ride to Fidel Castro's headquarters. Halper spent three days with Castro and his ragged, fanatic followers. For the eyewitness report, see HEMISPHERE, This Man Castro...
...Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling foe, V. K. Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister. Asked by a cameraman to keep talking with Menon, Lodge quipped: "Oh, we won't have any trouble about that!" Cane in one hand, Menon plucked jovially at the garlands around Lodge's neck, apologized with some relish: "I'm sorry there are bugs in your flowers...
...general political amnesty." He made it clear that this would apply to Castro. The rebels' reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs popping from Havana to Santiago, 500 miles away, fired buses, killed two policemen, sent mysterious light planes over cane fields, dropping thousands of incendiary tubes that burned upwards of 125 million Ibs. of sugar cane...