Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week he was closing a deal to sell a sizable chunk of his acreage to a combine headed by Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe. Howard Hughes controls Cay Sal, closest island (50 miles) to Cuba...
...lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, will go on to see the press in New York and make a speech before the Harvard Law School Forum. A compulsive explainer. Castro apparently expects to win U.S. sympathy by candor and eloquence-despite his growing record of blaming Cuba's troubles on that "bad neighbor,'' the U.S., and of choosing neutralism as Cuba's cold-war course...
...Fidel Castro that the U.S. will see is still an idol to Cuba's masses, but he has lost favor with much of the middle class that financed his way to power, and he has disillusioned many foreign spectators who cheered his rebellion against dictatorship. In his first 100 days he has seemed to savor power more and more while exhibiting the views and comprehensions of a college radical...
Deep Surgery. When Castro was fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba's eastern mountains, he advertised his revolution's aims as a purge of governmental and social corruption and a restoration of justice and democracy. He has carried out the purge, effectively cutting off official corruption and cutting down on the once flagrant prostitution. He has curbed Cuba's feverish gambling by turning the government lottery into a savings institute and confining Havana's gaudy (but currently mostly empty) casinos to the relatively few tourists who brave the new regime's occasional, brusque clothing searches...
...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...