Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suddenly, a blinding spotlight blazed through the mist. The U.S. border patrol cutter Douglas C. Shute roared alongside and two agents leaped to the Harpoon's slippery deck yelling: "Keep her on course!" As a defiant helmsman slammed the Harpoon into a mangrove thicket, uniformed Cuban revolutionaries poured from the cabin. One tried to fire his submachine gun, failed only because the clip was in backwards; another exploded a defective hand grenade, blowing off a finger. The rest purpled the air with curses...
...with plotting against a foreign state), $30,000 worth of mortars, antitank guns, rifles and medical supplies headed for Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces. Next day, in luxurious homes along Biscayne Boulevard, in such southwestern Miami hangouts as the neonbright Blue Derby Restaurant and the Tropicana dance hall, Cuban faces were as long as a rum sour. And Cubans were not the only residents of Miami with a particular interest in the night's events. The city is a hive of revolutionists; hardly a day goes by without at least one new plot abrewing...
...enterprises with a profitable smoothness that gives him time to dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes...
...outran a pursuing government DC-3. Then, its gas gone, the plane tried to glide into the nearby U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and nosed into the nearby bay. Watchers at the base's radar screen saw it vanish-another mystery of the cloak-and-dagger Cuban civil...
Less than 72 hours later, in the middle of cop-filled Havana. Charles Hormel, 45, U.S. citizen, coolly identified himself to a TIME correspondent as pilot of the plane. A rebel sympathizer who married into a wealthy Cuban family 17 years ago, Dayton-born Charles Hormel (distant kin to the meat-packing family) began flying to rebel territory last October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane...