Word: electras
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...Unlike Clytemnestra. his mother has not killed her husband; she has merely taken up with a fake faith healer while her soldier-husband is missing in war. Her house has become a near-brothel and a hangout for all sorts of scurvy types. To Eugenia, the latter-day Electra, hating her mother's vulgarity and unfaithfulness, life is agony. Their violent quarrels have become a way of life, to be ended, Eugenia believes, only when Brother Orestes comes back from the university to set things right. When he does show up, he is seen to be a cool, antiseptic...
Eventually the Electra's passengers and crew were taken to a steak lunch at the airport dining room, where they (and Castro) watched Honored Guest Gagarin arrive in a sudden rain squall for the July 26 celebration. They were then escorted to the terminal hotel, where their room keyholes were stuffed with paper so they could not lock the doors. Armed guards stood in the halls, telephone calls were banned, a Swiss embassy representative was turned away. But no one was harmed, and next day the Americans were permitted to return to Miami in a regularly scheduled Pan American...
...legislators frothed with frustration. Florida's Senator George Smathers led the chorus calling for U.S. military forces to march right into Havana and grab the Electra. And one Eastern Air Lines director exploded: "I'd bomb every damned airport Castro's got. This was stealing, kidnaping, mail robbery and felonious assault aboard a United States aircraft-and the sad part is that this country is doing nothing about it. What in hell's come over this country...
...week's end, Fidel Castro was still cockily unconcerned. He passed the Electra's disposition to the United Nations, claiming that otherwise the U.S. would use the incident as a pretext for invasion. "But let them come if they want to," he said. "If our destiny is to be a bloody one, let them come...
...manner: "The revolution does not have to await a date; revolution is a process." Apparently he had decided, perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised as the passengers) at Havana's José Marti Airport. Just as unexpected was a cloudburst that accompanied the star visitor, Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, into Cuba. The rain soaked Gagarin, ruined his beautiful white uniform, and left the militia road...