Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home in Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel...
...development of Latin American trade with the Soviet bloc has made the United States' apathy seem indeed alarming. The Soviets, less economically self-sufficient than the United States, are in some ways in a better position to trade with the Latins. There are many South American products, such as Cuban sugar and Argentine grain and meat, which this country cannot use but which Russia...
Hardest hit of all would be Minnesota's four beet sugar refineries; unrestricted ad mission of Cuban sugar would wipe out the uneconomic growth of sugar beets by Minnesota farmers...
Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
...copper), automakers alone had to pay out more than $21 million last year in grey market premiums for the precious hardener for bumpers, crankshafts and a dozen other parts. The shortage is so critical that the Administration, while getting out of business elsewhere, is expanding nickel output at its Cuban Nicaro plant by 75%. To placate civilian industry, the Pentagon even had to divert 24 million Ibs. of nickel from its stockpiles to civilian use last year, has already funneled out another 12 million Ibs. in the first quarter...