Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in a country where man hunts are not uncommon, it was the biggest in recent history. From one end of Castro's Cuba to the other, the police, the armed forces, the secret security, Castro's network of neighborhood spies and "the entire organized populace" searched for more than two weeks. Their quarry: Angel Betancourt Cueto, the flight engineer who tried to hijack a Cubana Airlines plane March 27th and ended up killing the pilot and a guard before leaping from the plane and escaping (TIME, April 8). Last week Castro finally found his man-and with...
...better listen to this boat drill," Captain Otto Thoresen cautioned passengers. "Next time it might be the real thing." As the 30-minute no-nonsense safety demonstration proceeded, the Viking Princess steamed out of Miami on a seven-day pleasure cruise. Last week, in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti, the cruise was nearing its end when the real thing did happen. The Princess was ablaze...
...this unorthodox manner, Cubans last week got the bad news. At 5,000,000 tons, this year's sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 tons under last year's crop and 1,500,000 tons less than Castro's earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled...
...wild Irish humor are scarcely touched upon at all. His weaknesses are ignored or glossed over so swiftly and uncritically that the Bay of Pigs "setback" seems a mere preliminary bout for the Administration's sword's-point showdown over the dismantling of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. "There were those who disagreed with the President," says Peck. But they obviously don't matter very much. On the New Frontier, once unreliable U.S. rockets sail obediently into orbit. In the movie's oversimple view of Washington under Kennedy, intramural shoptalk and crackling press conferences disappear...
Unsynchronized Passion. Hemingway himself was, of course, his own greatest creation-the archetype of all Hemingway heroes. A big, burly man with heavy shoulders and hugely muscled arms, he was 48 and still radiating an aura of fun and well-being when he and Hotchner first met in Cuba in 1948. For the next 13 years they were inseparable friends. Although he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active...