Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Schlesinger, Galbraith, and Reischauer,--three professors close to undergraduates--were picked for high positions and Harvard men took mixed views of the New Frontier's talent search. Reaction around the nation remained highly favorable, until the inevitable first mistake by the Kennedy Administration (Cuba), while response at the College was one of pride--mixed with frustration over the loss of top instructors...
Though we don't discuss Cuba in front of the child
...Caracas, Venezuela, the government of liberal President Rómulo Betancourt, whom Castro calls a "lackey of imperialism," intercepted several tons of arms-Czech submachine guns, ammunition, grenades-shipped from Cuba to isolated points along the Venezuelan coast. The Venezuelan government, which is not anxious to arouse its volatile populace, issued an official denial of the reports, but intelligence sources insist that the shipments have been going on since December, and a Venezuelan official lamented last week: "We have a long and open coastline. They can smuggle that stuff in virtually anywhere. We catch what...
...Quadros, long a let's-leave-Castro-alone man, had to fly in an infantry battalion from Rio to help local army units keep order. When troops raided a Peasant League headquarters in the neighboring state of Paraiba, they found 100 rifles, reportedly exported from Cuba, thousands of Portuguese translations of textbooks on guerrilla warfare printed in Cuba, Castro-style military caps-plus a supply of good Cuban cigars for the peasant leaders to pass out to the deserving...
...imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans: "I don't know whether I'm reading names or eye charts." Baker is puzzled by the space race. That Russia was first to send a cosmonaut into space does not unduly dismay Baker...