Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, President Kennedy's half-hearted attempt to intervene in Cuba might be construed as an emulation of unscrupulous Soviet tactics. His recent call for self-censorship" in newspapers might be taken as a first step toward imitation of the captive press institutionalized in the Soviet systems. Or one might be more charitable...
About 200 M.I.T. students, chanting "Cuba 81, Castro No" and a slightly incongruous "We Want Latin," Invaded the Yard at about 11:30 p.m. last night...
...screamed "tear him to bits," and hurled shoes at the battered mannikin, freshman Kathy Houser appeared on the scene with two friends, calmly sliced Dr. Castro down, and raced away. Later, she said she "had been disgusted, and wanted to show that there were people with other ideas about Cuba...
...doubtful, however, that anyone had any ideas to begin with. Marion Lear, one of the four girls who had organized the lynching, said it aimed at "ending political apathy and unawareness at Wheaton." Miss Lear admitted that she herself couldn't name the President of Cuba because she "never read newspapers...
After the dancing, staging, and the actual stringing-up, there was an address delivered by Miss Elina Carillo, a Wheaton student who had formerly lived in Cuba. "My father," she recalled, "need to own a sugar plantation But now they're all gone...