Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
Pick When Ripe. For 5 ft. 3 Stan Lipiec (he buys his clothes in the boys' department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse tick. Over & above his practical schooling, he developed a strategic sixth sense for razor-sharp hay-burners. His secret lies in knowing when to nab horses that other trainers have brought to peak performance...
After experiments in St. Louis, a pilot station was set up at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 1944. A battery of three seismographs was arranged in a three-cornered pattern. These indicators measured the strength and nearness of the tremors set up by several full-fledged hurricanes which roared past Cuba that season. Results were good. This year the Navy established two more stations, one in Florida, one in Puerto Rico, to keep a triangulated finger squarely on storms in the Caribbean hurricane belt...
Divorced. By General Fulgencio Batista, 44, ex-President of Cuba: Elisa del Pilar Godinez y Gomez de Batista, 40; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Mexico City. He charged that she "materially abandoned" him (by staying in Cuba while he wandered around North and South America...
...Ambassador to Cuba, Braden helped make possible the free elections in which President-Dictator Juan Batista's regime was voted out. Braden forbade U.S. business interests in Cuba to pony up the usual election ante ($2,000,000 in that case) and otherwise encouraged a free vote. Even Batista praised him: "He is more a man than a diplomat." So far, the Braden doctrine and the Braden way have failed in their most conspicuous, most important test-in Argentina. There, at the crest of his career as a Hemisphere Ambassador, Braden early this year locked horns with Dictator Juan...