Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open space between Rockefeller and Goldwater. In towns where Goldwater bluntly advocated air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion, Mrs. Smith announces she would have provided cover or not attempted the Cuban landing at all. Where Goldwater proposed every conceivably frightful means to get the missiles out of Cuba, Senator Smith more mildly suggests she would "never have lifted the blockade quarantine until on-sight inspection had been allowed...
...created an incident that would give him an excuse to focus world attention on Guantanamo by cutting off its water supply. His denials are refuted by monitored radio messages between the boats and Havana and President Dortico's broadcast announcing claims to the base at a time 'convenient' to Cuba...
...controls two dozen of them in such assorted industries as rubber tires and sugar-cane-harvesting equipment. For all his wealth, Lamb leans toward the left. At Harvard last week he urged admission of Red China into the U.N. and a "new look" at U.S. relations with Cuba...
...dial gives a choice of two consonants for every number, which can then be combined with vowels (which are placed so that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number of the CIA-351-1100-becomes AH ME, CUBA BAY, OY. The New Yorker who wants to call A.T. & T. to complain about all-digit dialing dials GO WAG A WET YOYO...
...Cuba in Connecticut. The U.S. company is still best known for its tobacco products, particularly the cigars that it procures on its own. In its public humidor rooms, where temperature is carefully kept at 65° and humidity at 73%, the walls are lined with cedar lockers blazoning the names of connoisseurs who keep large private stocks: Milton Berle, David Sarnoff, Laurance Rockefeller, the Duke of Windsor. Some customers store up to 10,000 cigars at a time so as not to run low on Dunhill's most expensive cigars, the eight-inch $1 brands that are made from...