Word: cubana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gesture of power, the skyjacker shows his contempt for the establishment." Any rational political refugee who wanted to get to Cuba could do so without great difficulty on one of the six airlines that fly there regularly: Mexicana, Iberia, Air Canada, Soviet Russia's Aeroflot, Czechoslovak Airlines, and Cubana...
...Plane & Fishing Fleet. To cover their identities, many delegates traveled on phony passports, readily available in most major Latin American cities. Delegates who flew to Mexico City and caught one of the twice-weekly Cubana Airlines flights to Havana had to submit to laborious immigration and secret-police screenings by Mexican authorities. Some, like Carmichael, flew to Prague or Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went...
...accompanied by vomiting, acute cramps and fever; and it can be fatal to feeble youngsters and oldsters. In the Boston case, it fell to Pediatrician David J. Lang to find out whatdunit. From case records, Dr. Lang concluded that while some of the children had been infected with S. cubana when they entered the hospital, others had picked up the infection there. That made the job tougher. Dr. Lang found that the hospital-acquired cases had been bedded in four different buildings. No help there. He cross-examined the doctors and nurses of 20 of the children, checked out what...
...come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius coccus, whose fat contains the dye. And where had they come from? The Canary Islands and Peru. In both places the insects appeared to be infected with cubana...
Sure enough, Dr. Kunz was able to grow S. cubana from the dye capsules. Mass General notified state and federal health authorities and substituted a black carbon marker for carmine red as an intestinal tracer. Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. So far, so good. But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than...