Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro was celebrating July 26, the anniversary of the day six years ago that he fired a 12-gauge shotgun to signal the start of an abortive attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Barracks, in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. He also needed a display of hero worship so that he could accede to "popular demand" and resume the post of Prime Minister, which he had quit the previous week during the histrionics that preceded the purge of President Manuel Urrutia (TIME, July 27). He got it, and returned to office...
Towering over the sidewalk in front of eastern Santiago's city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched...
...very tough to calculate accurately. Only when the august Harvard College Observatory confirmed Taylor's calculations did the occultation of Regulus become a serious concern of world astronomy. The U.S. was ruled out as a major observation point because Venus and Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...
Samurai (at the Telepix). A superior Far Eastern "Western," recounting the life of the legendary Japanese warrior Musashi, powerfully portrayed by Toshiro (Rashomon) Mifune. Handsomely color-photographed, this won an Academy Award as "best foreign film." For those whose Japanese is shaky, there are excellent English subtitles...
...BISHOPS, "both of the Eastern and of the Western Church, who as rulers of the Christian people bear, together with us, the burden of the day and the heat," the Pope expressed sympathy for "the unhappy falling away of so many of your children, who are tricked by the wiles of error...