Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuban Rebels Release Captives...
HAVANA, Nov. 11--The rebel high command announced last night it has released 25 passengers and 6 crewmen from two Cuban airliners hijacked...
Havana displayed all the trappings of free election. Lampposts and palm trees blossomed with posters and pictures; fist-shaking candidates appealed nightly over TV; Cuban radios boomed their promises. The government announced that 72% of the island republic's 2,870,678 eligible voters had picked up their voting permits. And around the country the polls were provided with enclosed booths where the voter could even split his ticket, deposit it in a sealed ballot...
...novel, The Quiet American), can be caused by the relatively innocent. Wormold's phony reports touch off a vicious series of reprisals from sources never quite labeled. The enemy kill and hound real people whom they suspect as Wormold's agents. He is himself abused by Cuban police and nearly poisoned at a businessman's lunch. The deadly joke reaches back to London, where the big boys recognize their mistake but do not dare admit it. The end is heavily ironic...
...undefeated Crimson captain encountered his first serious competition of the season in Penn's sophomore star Dick Tracy and Cuban-born Jose Iglesias of the Lions. Two years ago, Iglesias ran Harvard ace Pete Reider into the ground on this same Van Cortlandt course, and Benjamin's 26:01 yesterday was 50 seconds slower than the 1956 winning time. But Iglesias, hampered by injuries and "upper-classitis," could do no better than third yesterday...