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Word: castros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their state. Invariably, Salinger's campaign pitch includes recollections of the days of glory with Jack Kennedy, of his own meeting in Moscow with "Chairman Khrushchev," of how he and a few other New Frontier notables spent seven days and seven nights "looking down the nuclear barrel" at Castro. He insists that he knows more people in Washington than Cranston, and as a Senator could get past more doors. Replies Cranston: "It is one thing to get in the door. It is another thing to know what to do when you're inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Difficulty of Selling Soap | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...exile campaign against Cuba's Fidel Castro pressed on last week-a war of words, nerves and calculated confusion designed to bedevil and aggravate Cuba's Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: War of Nerves | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...reports of new landings and new attacks poured out of Miami. Spokesmen for Manuel Artime's M.R.R., which destroyed a sugar mill fortnight ago, announced that they had gone in again to blow up six highway bridges inside Cuba-then admitted that this was untrue but promised that Castro would hear from them soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: War of Nerves | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Corsair & Caesar. Anti-Castro radio stations came on the air, and some of the broadcasts may have indeed come from inside Cuba. But most of them probably originated no farther distant than "Little Havana" in southwestern Miami. Using code names such as "Tiger," "Corsair," and "Alpha Five," they beamed a 24-hour torrent of chatter, reading off metronome-like numbers in Spanish and repeating cryptic messages: "Caesar is approaching the Colosseum," "The little tree is in the middle of the pasture." More than once, Castro stations broke in angrily. Cried one Castroite at the microphone: "You have no guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: War of Nerves | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...everyone expected to hear from was mysteriously silent. Manolo Ray, leader of the JURE exile group, had promised to be inside Cuba reorganizing the anti-Castro underground by May 20, Cuba's Independence Day. On the 16th, Miami monitors picked up a brief broadcast purporting to be from Cuba: "This is Ray speaking to all Cubans from free territory." But Ray's lieutenants said it was not Ray's voice. On the 20th, there was nothing but silence from Ray's group. Was their leader in Cuba? A spokesman merely smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: War of Nerves | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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