Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 4:45 a.m. we touched Cuban soil. As the plane's wheels scraped the dark empty runway, someone began to sing, "Cuba, Que Linda Es Cuba...
...light touch shook me from sleep. I looked up and a smiling Cuban host handed me a snack tray. We were all served cold cut sandwiches, beer and a strong fruit juice. After eating, I walked down the aisle and talked with the rest of the students. Some were joking, trying to fight off their weariness. I looked at the dozens of boxers who slept, ate, joked, played guitars or watched us. Cuba was hosting the first World Amateur Boxing Tournament. From all over the world, boxers were coming to Cuba to fight...
...McGeorge Bundy, 55, and Theodore Sorensen, 46, it was almost like home movies as they watched re-creations of themselves act out their original parts in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Jean Kennedy Smith, Husband Stephen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. were among the other guests who gathered in the Sorensens' Manhattan living room to watch ABC's special, The Missiles of October, when it was aired last week. The party was subdued; the handful of friends and followers of the fallen Kennedy brothers were clearly moved by the resemblances to Jack and Bobby...
...magazine is not especially known for its journalistic prowess-although its kind of photojournalism does seem to sell well. But this month, right on the other side of its gauzy, dream-like centerfold, is a fairly good interview with Cuban premier Fidel Castro, conducted last July by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, McGovern's presidential campaign manager and press secretary, respectively. The article opens up with a ridiculous description of Castro as having "the build of a cornerback, or maybe an Ivy League tackle," and proceeds to detail his diet, smoking habits, and insane driving abilities, concluding with Castro remarking...
...Missiles of October. An ABC Theatre dramatization of White House meetings during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. A strong cast plays the best and the brightest. Ch. 5,8 p.m. 3 (count 'em) hours...