Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton has a few problems in addition to its lack of talent. One Princeton star spent last year cutting sugar cane with the Venceremos brigade in Cuba, and he isn't getting along too well with the other players or coach Bill Quackenbush...
...white Europeans and Thant is from Burma, many African and Latin delegates believe that it is their turn. But neither Moscow nor Washington wholly trusts the Black Africans (too unpredictable on any issue but race and colonialization), and the Russians feel that everything south of the Rio Grande except Cuba and Chile is a Yankee playground. Finally, since Communist China is likely to become a U.N. member in the next few years, some countries want a new Secretary-General to come from a nation that recognizes Peking...
...including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into naval aviation and rose to the rank of captain. By then he had already founded Newsday with an investment of $50,000 in 1940; the paper grew into a vast success in no small part because of the brilliant...
...another diplomatic kidnaping case appeared to be on the verge of settlement. After a month of negotiating with Brazilian guerrillas, the government appears to be ready to pay the requested ransom for the release of Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher. The price: 70 prisoners, safely delivered to either Chile, Cuba or Algeria...
...voiceover judgments of the poor people accusing him, judgments from a highly bigoted upper-class perspective. The hero's generalizations about national character, his sense of the country, the Cuban soul, his generally useless impressions of social events, all run through the film and stand as a description of Cuba which the film nowhere objectively opposes. His oppressive sense of the alien city with its crowds, characteristic of the most hackneyed modern Western fiction, stands unchallenged as a description of Havana under socialism. Progressive film-makers do better than that: take Louis Malle, whose recent Calcutta tries to understand great...