Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manheim quickly spilled his story. Last summer, he said, he had met a Cuban named Jose Duarte. The Cuban, Manheim went on, placed orders to buy arms for the account of Carlos Prio Socarras, whom Bastista booted out of the Cuban presidency last March. Duarte turned over $15,500 for expenses and a $24,000 letter of credit. Manheim told police that he reported the deal to the U.S. State Department, and was instructed to "play along" until the plot was ripe. Over the months, he bought the surplus U.S. Army materiel and rented the gas station, only a grenade...
Although most of the Spanish-language LIFE will consist of articles and pictures from the domestic edition of LIFE, each issue will also have pictures, articles and selections prepared especially for the Spanish-language edition. For example. No. 1 has an eleven-page illustrated article on Cuban Patriot Jose Marti, together with some of his original writings. As a regular feature, the Spanish-language LIFE also has a "Letter from North America." In its Letters-to-the-Editor section, Colombia Publisher Maurice Obregón, owner of Semana, a weekly newsmagazine, wrote:"We respect the competition of your admirable magazine...
...masterfully written story about a Cuban fisherman, which may be just what Ernest Hemingway thinks it is: the best work he has ever done (TIME, Sept...
...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...masterfully written story about a Cuban fisherman, which may be just what Ernest Hemingway thinks it is: the best work he has ever done (TIME, Sept...