Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Cárdenas came Russian-made T-34 tanks, mortars, four-barreled ZPU-4 Czech antiaircraft guns. Troops in Soviet-style helmets marched grimly past. Overhead thundered three Russian-made MIG jet fighters. Television carried the show to every town in Cuba-along with a warning from the reviewing stand by President Osvaldo Dorticós (Castro did not attend). Denouncing "the wretched counter-revolutionary provocation that took place here," Dorticós spoke in a double negative, but the assembled peasants got the idea. If they "do not allow counter-revolutionary parasites to get away with one single...
...Sailing Wolfe Baruch. 88, retired stockbroker who. with Brother Bernard M. Baruch, hired a locomotive on the Fourth of July 1898. steamed from the Jersey shore into holiday-forsaken Manhattan to cable huge buy orders to the London Stock Exchange on news of the great U.S. naval victory off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, a victory that, as they expected, touched off a great buying spree on Wall Street next day. skyrocketing prices in the U.S. stocks that the Baruchs had bought at low prices in London while others were too busy celebrating; after a long illness; in Miami...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Brinkley visits Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Color...
Just to show that he's still one of the peasants, Cuba's Fidel Castro likes to don a wide-brimmed straw hat, peel off his starched green uniform shirt, and work up a good sweat by chopping away in the sugar-cane fields. Last week he had some hardly reassuring words for his fellow cane workers struggling to get in Cuba's drought-blighted and sorely mismanaged sugar crop. Conditions in Cuba will surely change for the better, said Fidel, "in ten or twelve years...
...heard. To New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, a Kennedy supporter, it seemed particularly ridiculous that the President should bother to pop off at any segment of a press that has generally been more than kind. ("Never in recent American history has such a humiliating blunder as Cuba been passed over so lightly.") In the New York Daily News, Capital Columnist Ted Lewis urged Kennedy admirers to forgive Kennedy's "petulant purge." Said Lewis: "The man in the White House is overburdened. His problems frustrate him, for none of the big ones has an easy solution...