Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually a great deal more to say. Meanwhile, a circumstantial account of the incident flashed around Cuba and jumped the Straits of Florida to Miami, where exiled opposition leaders keep close tabs on their homeland, only an hour away by airliner. According to this account, detectives of the Cuban Bureau of Investigation swooped down on the cardinal's palace one night shortly after the rebellion had been suppressed. In the midst of a frenzied city-wide search for anti-Batista plotters, they had picked up a tip that the cardinal was harboring fugitive revolutionaries. Arteaga, who had gone...
Born. To Judy Canova, 36, hillbilly screen and radio (The Judy Canova Show) comedienne, and Philip Rivero, 39, wealthy Cuban importer: their first child, a daughter. Name: Diana. Weight...
...earned-run average. The staff's main supports: Bill Pierce (15-12), Veteran Joe Dobson (14-10), Saul Rogovin (14-9), Reliefer Harry Dorish. "We kept the nucleus of this good staff," says Richards, "and made it stronger with trades." One trade, with Washington, brought him young (21) Cuban Mike Fornieles, who pitched a one-hitter against the A's in his major-league debut last year. Another pitching hopeful is Rookie Bob Keegan, 20-11 last season with Syracuse, where he led the International League in victories, innings pitched and shutouts...
...world's biggest sugar operator is a little known Havana trader named Julio Lobo. A short, imperious man of 54, Lobo has more to do than anybody else with determining the world price of sugar. He handles about half the entire Cuban crop, at least a fourth of the Puerto Rican and Philippine crops, owns or controls up to 30 Cuban sugar mills, and dominates the market everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward...
...back my judgment," Lobo says, "with good, fast, accurate information, courage and cash." Powerful though they are, even the big U.S. refiners find it unprofitable to buy at any time and in any quantity and thus compete with Lobo; in practice, they have to come to him for their Cuban sugar, and sometimes pay through the nose...