Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graft and terror inflamed Cuba's people against Batista and helped add Cuba to Latin America's four-year chain of democratic upheavals. But in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, the army, while shucking its dictator-boss, remained nearly intact and moderated the transition to free elections. In Cuba, as in the Mexico of 1910, the people rose to smash the army. The only force left in Cuba is fidelismo, an adherence to whatever scheme pops into the hero's mind...
...shrunken head swinging from his watch-chain which arrests one when speaking with Professor Jason Quaeritor, Harvard's leading authority on the Jivarro Indians of the Orinoco Valley. Professor Quaeritor is well known as Harvard's Malinowski and Margaret Mead, combined into one, as it were. He patted the the miniscule head and took a deep breath on a blow gun he has rigged up as a pipe...
...Miami-to-Chicago plane one day last week, Basil Walters, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, hunched over a cream-colored sheet of hotel stationery, cautiously shielding what he wrote from the eyes of the stranger sitting beside him. "Stuffy"' Walters had a secret...
...Problem: Costs. It was the sixth time that the News, which began life in 1876 as a four-page daily, has changed ownership. Last week's seller was John Shively Knight. 64. who added the News to his chain* in 1944, paying $2,000,000 in cash and assuming an outstanding debt of $6,600,000. Last week's buyer. Field, has been pining after the News since the wealthy Trib picked up Chicago's other evening paper, Hearst's money-losing American...
...Money. In the official announcement of the sale. Jack Knight pleaded "personal reasons" for dropping the biggest link in his chain. He has had a heavy heart since his youngest son. Frank, who was being groomed to take over the empire, died at 30 last spring of a brain tumor. After 40 years of answering the midnight bell. Jack Knight wanted to "relax a little." To the remaining Knight papers, he sent assurances that he had no intention of liquidating the chain...