Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME has won the gratitude of the Cuban people for its impartial coverage of the Cu ban situation. Our people, led by the new Bolivar, Fidel Castro, have given a unique example to the whole world in their fight against one of the most cruel dictatorships...
Castro has the Cuban moralistic streak in spades, showing no apparent affection for money or soft living. He considers himself a Roman Catholic but is also impressed by Patriot José Marti's anticlerical tomes. He has to be cajoled into changing his filthy fatigue jacket. His only luxury is 50? Montecristo cigars...
Moving to Havana, Castro enrolled at the Jesuits' Belen College, got interested in politics. Like many another Cuban student, he kept a revolver or two around the dormitory. He worked his way up through student politics at Belen and Havana University (1945-50), got hauled in twice for questioning about political murders...
...when the vanguard of 1,100 hot-eyed Caribbean revolutionaries set out in a ship from Cuba's eastern coast, bound east to invade Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic, idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning...
...troubles. But he has a unique spiritual link with an earlier rebel Cuba through his late father, Journalist-Diplomat Stephen Bonsai, who in 1897 wrote The Real Condition of Cuba, an eloquent report on the tyranny that won him the gratitude of the rebels, later a Cuban decoration...