Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro, who promoted an 82-man 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...
...years a slim, changing line of girls-about 800 in all-moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios...
...announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among Eastern railroads in regard to merger." While studies of the Pennsy merger indicated that "savings are possible from both coordination of facilities and corporate merger," what the Central would like to do for the time being is combine some facilities with the Pennsy...
Mikoyan, appearing on NBC-TV last night, rejected as "impossible" any thought of merging Eastern and Western Berlin into a single free city. But he vigorously renewed Russia's demand that West Berlin alone be converted into a free city, contending this is needed to keep the area from becoming "a possible hotbed of war." The Soviety Deputy Premier is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Moscow to report to Premier Nikita Khrushchev and to get ready for a big Communist party meeting later this month...
...policy against such walkouts. At week's end Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced that he will soon convene a top-level labor-management conference to debate whether the 33-year-old Railway Labor Act, which tries to regulate airline disputes, needs revamping and toughening. Hearing the news, Eastern's Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker called for a law to require compulsory arbitration of disputes that cannot be settled by Government mediation...