Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, there certainly were a lot of them, and they all spent Saturday at the University. For those who might have been wondering why and where, Saturday was Kids' Day at Harvard for 950 (count 'em) youngsters from Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding communities...
...years ; most fields have not been fertilized. Many of the ex pert cane cutters who normally harvest the crop are in the militia, and the "vol unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which it got an average $500 million, most of it from the U.S. in preferential prices. Fortnight ago, Cuba's Minister of Industry, Che Gue vara, who, if nothing else, is the most candid of Cuba's new rulers...
...desperate turns a disheartened Cuba may take are many. The Bay of Pigs invasion did Castro the invaluable favor-so essential in fastening a dictatorship on a people-of convincing the discontented that resistance is futile. Most of the diplomats and foreign journalists in Havana (who can no longer count on the frankness of those they talk to) see little chance of a popular revolt, and sense that, though greatly diminished, the reservoir of idealism and expectancy that Castro began with still exists among many campesinos...
...atomic age, March winds and April showers also bring fallouts from the thin upper air. As spring crept over the Northern Hemisphere last week, scientists everywhere deployed their Geiger count ers, sure that radioactivity would rise with the daffodils...
...Calories Don't Count, Taller...