Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face trial for "intrigues" and "conspiratorial actions." That alone was not too surprising under Castro's oppressive regime, but Granma followed it up a day later with a real stunner: the plotters were in league with the Russians. Thus, as he might savor a slow-burning, pungent Havana cigar, Castro revealed to the world the scope of Cuba's steadily worsening relations with Moscow...
...STILL HAVE HAVANA, boasted an ad last week in the New York Times Magazine and other newspapers for the Garcia y Vega, Inc. cigar company, which has access to nearly half of the pre-Castro leaf still warehoused in the U.S. And yes, Garcia y Vega has the promotional services of one of the more fascinating authors in the nation. In return for mailing in ten bands from the company's Elegantes or Gallantes (list price: two for 250), a cigar smoker can get a free copy of To Seek a Newer World (list: $4.95), a slim volume...
...size, sumptuosity, style and snob appeal, this resplendent volume wins any 1967 publisher's award for conspicuous taste. Suggested prize: a gold-trimmed watch-fob-cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English...
Coach Bill McCurdy had good cause to beam as he lit up a huge victory cigar after the meet. Four Briggs Cage records fell Saturday to Harvard trackmen, including the marks erased by Baker, the shot put record, and the mile-relay time...
...dressed, balding pacifist. Though he looks hardly more aggressive than Peter Sellers, Bellinger began his protest career during World War II by refusing to register for the draft, spent a total of three years in prison for his principled recalcitrance-and last week entered the cooler again, puffing a cigar, after his arrest at the Pentagon...