Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business, for the most part, is nearly back to normal in Havana. The tourists are slowly returning to the suffering hotels, as they realize that the fighting and danger are over. The exotic Cuban climate is as alluring as ever, the ubiquitous busses driven by mad geniuses called guageros zoom miraculously through narrow city streets, and the colorful street vendors tirelessly ply their wares upon bargain-hunting Americanos...
...question of Communism it is high time that a frequently recurring ghost be laid low. Fidel Castro himself is neither a Communist nor a communist sympathizer. Moreover, he sees no real danger of Communism coming into power as results of the recent re-birth of the strength of the labor unions. Although many of his soldiers have confided to me their willingness to attack the Dominican Republic in a two-pronged blow at Batista and Trujillo, Castro himself professes no knowledge of any such plans. His manner, moreover, suggested that Batista's threat to return to Cuba at the head...
...wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned Secretary Dulles that the U.S. was in danger of losing its majority at the U.N. unless it heeded world fears on the nuclear-test issue...
With heart attacks and strokes causing about half of all U.S. deaths, eight eminent physicians (including five past presidents of the American Heart Association*) issued last week a check list of danger signals. Their belief is that while medical science gropes for definitive measures, attention to these signals "will prolong life for many at this time." First comes heredity: granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being...
...equality the U.S. opiate of the classes? Does the modern American believe that a man's grasp should exceed his reach, or what's an expense account for? Is the U.S. in danger of being "a waist-high culture"-in which the best as well as the worst aim their arts and products at the middle...