Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the brambles and pine trees of Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra range, along trails they know well, Rebel Fidel Castro, 31, and his band of 600 guerrilla fighters this week mark an anniversary. It is one year since Castro landed 81 seasick adventurers from Mexico in an invasion that drew only derision from President Fulgencio Batista, 56. The dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned...
...represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University's Theologian Helmut Thielicke: "I know exactly what he will do now; he will pray for his enemies and become a source of life for his fellow prisoners . . . Will we ponder, on our part, how, by imprisoning him, Eastern tyranny has passed judgment on itself...
...opening day of Maryland's goose-hunting season, federal game wardens swooped down on an Eastern Shore passel of 15 hunters, discovered that the surrounding corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...
...five round trips daily on the lucrative New York-Puerto Rico run, which Trans Carib has been servicing until now as a supplemental carrier, i.e., only ten scheduled flights a month. Trans Carib plans charging $45 for one-way tourist fares v. $64 charged by competing Pan American and Eastern...
...subsidize it again." So far are investors from that state of mind right now, said Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still needed to pay for its new equipment." In Chicago, Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker told a press conference that Eastern will "definitely have to defer" its big jet procurement program if CAB does not grant a fare increase...