Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What everyone had long known about Cuba was confirmed in detail last week: Fidel Castro has turned his country into an invasion base. The proof came in Manhattan, when a group of disillusioned young Americans of Puerto Rican descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...president in 1956. Out rolled his austere, cheap ($1,795) Scotsman. That car missed, but it taught Churchill that U.S. buyers want more than a stripped-down version of a costlier car. So he built a new car, presided over every mechanical detail, hustled out to the plant at any hour of day or night when a decision was needed. The Big Three have been working on their compact cars for a year or more. The Lark was driven into showrooms just seven months after the decision to build it, because, says Chief Engineer Gene Hardig, the company...
...history's biggest campaign against a single group of diseases, intensively studying everything that lives, from man through beasts and birds to mushrooms, molds and the lowly virus that causes a mottling disease in tobacco plants. This week TIME, in its cover story, reports in depth and detail on how this crucial battle is going...
...more radical
and drastic than the Reds consider wise as a first step to the
collectivization they, but not the Cubans, want." But as early as April
23, Times-woman Ruby Phillips, in a story run by the Times (over
Matthews' strong objections), reported in detail on "a Communist
pattern in the development of the revolutionary program." Again, in
May, Ruby Phillips wrote: "Since the victory of the Castro revolution
last Jan. i, the Communists and the 26th of July movement have been in
close cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.