Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gauge of how relations between the White House and the press have changed comes in a reminiscence by Max Frankel, who recently left the New York Times Washington bureau to become the paper's Sunday editor. Writing in the Columbia Forum, Frankel recalls that during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, John Kennedy personally requested that the Times temporarily withhold exclusive information. His reason: if the Russians discovered prematurely how much the U.S. knew about their installations in Cuba, they would "take some action -like activating the missiles -and force him to attack." The request seemed reasonable. The previous...
...upper class Latin Americans would never organize any genuine reform programs which would threaten their own position of power. They opposed any attempt at graduated income or land taxes to fund the programs. Meanwhile, as the Cuban threat diminished, Congress cut funds at each session...
Black music left Africa in the slave ship and later became work songs, gospel music, the blues, Afro-Cuban and jazz. September 1-3, 1972, Black music returned to its source. With the First International Jazz Festival in Tangiers, Morocco, jazz came home...
TUESDAY: The Old Man and the Sea (1968). Spencer Tracy delivers an award-winning performance as Hemingway's allegorical Cuban fisherman in a battle with fate. CH. 7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Garment Workers' Union won a 20% hike over the next three years for its 60,000 New York area members. A principal beneficiary of New York's decline has been Miami, where spacious plants rent for half the going cost of New York lofts, and nonunion Cuban immigrant labor is available at rates 7% to 10% below those on Seventh Avenue. Miami dressmaking employment has risen from...