Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tractors & Bulls. Bidding for Tennessee's top job is John Jay Hooker Jr., 35, a stylish, well-heeled Nashville attorney and longtime friend of Bobby Kennedy's who headed the abortive 1961 tractors-for-freedom committee to bail out Castro's Bay of Pigs prisoners. Along with a Southern drawl, Hooker manages a touch of Boston brogue, has a handsome wife who expects to have a baby, Kennedy-style, around the August primary...
...Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...
...Castro: "No, but I think we'll have a better average." Puff. Chop. Chonk. "Las Villas has about 500,000 tons less of cane than last year," chop, "and Oriente has 100,000 tons less." Chonk. "The only province that is the same as last year is Pinar del Rio, so the harvest will be just a bit over 5,000,000 tons...
...manner, Cubans last week got the bad news. At 5,000,000 tons, this year's sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 tons under last year's crop and 1,500,000 tons less than Castro's earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled...
...disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were his little brother Raul, who heads up the armed forces, President Osvaldo Dorticós, Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from...