Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dignity. Pearl Primus is no filmy ballerina. Her forte is force. Says she: "My body is built for heavy stomping, powerful dignity." She usually dances to an accompaniment of pulsing drums. In one of her new works, Santo, a psychological study of the clash of Voodooism and Christianity in Cuba, fascinated students watched an exhibition of primitive, pantherlike power and grace. In The Shouters of Sobo, a work based on the traditions of African stonecutters, students got a lesson in gripping, concentrated intensity. With muscled shoulders hunched over bended knees, her powerful arms pounding, her whole body dynamically dramatic, everything...
Somewhere in eastern Cuba, Dominican exiles lined up the team that would take over when the great day came-if it came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough...
Trujillo made no bones about it. He had not been able to find out just when & where the invaders would land to start a Dominican uprising that in the end might profit trouble-hunting Communists more than anyone else, although the plotters in Cuba still tried to keep the Commies out of the act. One night last week Trujillo pulled his bodyguards out of a party and went down to the beach. There he prowled around for a long time and scared...
...Managua, Nicaragua, Dictator and ex-President Anastasio Somoza watched a Nicaragua v. Cuba baseball game start falling to pieces as fighting broke out, restored order singlehanded in a characteristic way. He pulled out his gat and let go a couple of warning blasts...
Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...