Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sugar harvest. Last week the 216 docked at St. John, N.B., and another 600 young militants boarded the same ship to replace them. The achievements of the first group may prove difficult to duplicate. Taking the name Brigada Venceremos (rough translation: the We Shall Overcome Brigade), they worked alongside Cuban workers, including, on one occasion, none other than Fidel, who is said to spend at least four hours a day cutting cane. After nearly two months, the 216 Americans reached their goal: a harvest of 1,000,000 arrobas (about 25 million Ibs.). For their efforts, they received a most...
Michael Kazin '70 said the Cuban people love their work so much that city people volunteered their free time and weekends to go out into the fields and harvest the crops. Even Fidel Castro, he said, spends four hours each day cutting cane, and "cuts like hell...
While Brigade members wanted to talk about how impressed they were with the Cuban economic, medical, and educational systems, the newsmen and newswomen were more interested in their views on revolution and similar conduct in the United States...
...support the Cuban revolution and I think you've got to make that support concrete," Sandra Gove '71 said. She will go to Cuba this month with a group of about 50 Boston area residents including David Adams...
...would call them Topaz. It would seem difficult to make a zombie from Leon Uris' tense bestseller, based on diplomatic crescendos leading up to the Cuban missile crisis. Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion...