Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold initials on the door, and she shudderingly recalls that the only time the speedometer dipped below 100 m.p.h. was when he rounded a curve. On the way home, Desi hit a bump and, as Lucille tells it, a fender flew off. He simply flicked the ash from his Cuban cigarillo and sped...
...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS) is an untrammeled TV comedy show distinguished by the high-quality slapstick of carrot-topped Comedienne Lucille Ball and her handsome Cuban-born husband, Desi Arnaz. Filmed especially for television in Hollywood, Lucy's combination of well-written scripts and rowdy good humor proved popular enough last month to displace both Arthur Godfrey and Milton Berle, and thus became the nation's No. i TV attraction...
Pork & Passports. Why was there practically no opposition when Batista pulled his coup? The basic answer is that seven years of riotously rotten government had left the average Cuban too cynical about democracy to fight in its behalf. When Grau San Martin was swept into office in 1944 on a wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government...
...trucks made straight for the airfield, where a chartered DC-3 stood waiting. Alemán and three henchmen took the U.S. money aboard, leaving the rest to be changed later at Cuban banks. In Miami, he carried the currency to the Du Pont Building headquarters of his $70 million Florida real-estate empire where, an employee has said, "bundles of $1,000 bills were tossed around like wrapped packages of pennies." Later a reporter asked Alemán, "How did you get all that money out of the Treasury?" "It was easy," said Alemán. "In suitcases...
...honor. Lord Bryce, writing in 1912, noted in them "a temper which holds every question to be one of honor." Sometimes, in the flurry of upholding honor and individual rights, some of the quieter ground rules of social conduct have a tendency to get lost in the shuffle. A Cuban joke defines democracy as "having a good job and the right to drive on the wrong side of the street." The great world capital of Buenos Aires (pop. 3,000,371) has no traffic lights; the authorities tried the signals out some years ago, but had to remove them because...