Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew the same jeering rejoinder: "Even Drew Pearson wouldn't believe that!" The catch phrase was inspired by a recent seven-day vacation in which, Columnist Pearson explained, he planned to "get away from the incessant drumbeat of American politics . . . into the more romantic bongo drumbeat of Cuban politics...
...CUBAN OIL will get a big push from Standard Oil Co. (Indiana). Standard has earmarked $10 million to drill in 12 million acres of south Cuba's coastal land and tideland, will own a permanent half-interest in any productive wells it brings in after spending the total...
...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
...raiding party of cops shot it out with a longtime enemy of Batista's, Orlando Leon Lemus. Known all over Cuba as El Colorado (Red, the color of his hair, not his politics), Lemus was one of the most pistol-happy of a pistol-happy tribe: the Cuban "revolucionarios," who plotted against Batista in the '30s and early '40s, then became government-coddled racketeers under Batista's successors. Last week, tipped off that El Colorado was up to his old conspiratorial tricks, the cops swooped down on his hiding place in the suburb of Santos...
Again and again last week, in Cuba, Mexico and Guatemala, Nixon showed the same deft soft-collar touch. When a Cuban reporter at a news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before...