Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion into a popular rebellion against tyranny, savored every moment of his victory march. He built up the drama by lingering five days on the way from eastern Santiago, where the war began, to Havana. His 6,000-man column, moving in captured tanks, Jeeps, cars, trucks and buses, drew clusters of flag-waving Cubans along every road, was stopped in its tracks by crushing crowds in every city. Castro himself was folksy, eloquent and tireless. "How will we enter Havana?" he asked. "Let me see, we will go along the Malecon and then we will turn up that avenue...
...behind when the top dogs fled, were convicted in kangaroo courts and shot; another nine were executed without benefit of trial at all. Typical victims: Santiago's Maritime Police Chief Alejandro Garcia Olayón, Santa Clara's Police Chief Cornelio Rojas (see cuts). After one execution drew a crowd of 3,000, the rebels ruled that spectators would henceforth be barred-but allowed to inspect the bodies afterward...
...enthusiasts began to clot together in little societies. The science of celestial mechanics (motions of the planets) had been highly developed by the astronomers. The astronauts took it over, added some features of their own. Long before World War II, when no rocket had flown above buzzard altitude, they drew charts of imaginary voyages to Mars or Venus that match almost exactly those drawn today...
Since 1956, the pressure of mounting production costs inexorably drew Jack Knight and Marshall Field together. Knight, with the News's obsolescent mechanical plant, could not hope to compete with the Trib, which will eventually print both the American and the Trib on Tribune Tower presses. Field's spanking new $21 million Sun-Times Chicago River building is starved for work: the Sun-Times's 534,000 press run keeps its $5,000,000 worth of new presses busy only...
Both Soloway and the ADA drew heavy criticism from a prominent union official yesterday, regarding their influence upon labor policy, after the State Labor Council also came out against Furcolo's tax program...