Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith has written for TIME'S Sport department in the last four years. An ex-prep school swimmer and football player, he confesses to an insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years, and the NBC news room. Writing for TIME'S Sport department...
...impudence, the cardinal-archbishop ordered that henceforth marrying couples must promise that no one taking part in the wedding would wear "a low-necked dress, short dress, or sleeveless dress." If any did, "the priest in charge will suspend the ceremony." Cuba's young women, 95% of whom are Roman Catholics, bowed to the edict...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...
...Miami has a permanent Cuban colony of 5,000. Havana interests have also invested heavily in real estate and hotels. Cuban syndicates have bought into the big Everglades and Shoremede Hotels; the Royalton and America (also Cuban-owned) print their menus in Spanish. Reported Havana Newsman Miguel de Marcos: "Cuba has conquered Miami without firing a shot...
Back to Havana from a luxurious four-year exile, mostly in Florida, came Fulgencio Batista:, moonfaced onetime strong man of Cuba. Elected last June on the Liberal ticket as minority senator from Las Villas province, he was coming home to serve his term...