Word: fideles
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...tractors Fidel Castro demanded as ransom for 1,200 imprisoned Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs invasion were ready, and the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee, headed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walter Reuther and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was prepared to deliver them to the Cuban dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have...
...Jack Paar, who was a onetime ardent admirer of Castro's. Fund-raising drives were under way in eleven Latin American countries, and the New York Times's Tad Szulc reported an "ever-so-rare spectacle of Latin American public opinion being aroused against Premier Fidel Castro and in favor of the United States...
...hubbub of conflicting opinions, only one voice was silent. Fidel Castro, who has never been known to shrink from public speech, had not been heard from for two weeks. The frustrated committee finally sent an ultimatum to Havana, gave Castro until midweek to accept its offer or call the whole thing...
Iron Curtain, negotiated a nonaggression pact with Fidel Castro. He promised to let a Fidelista political party organize and sent flunkies around the country making leftist speeches. Son Ramfis faces the certainty that of all Dominican opposition factions, the Communists and the Castroites are best organized to fill the power vacuum left by his father's death...
...pulled Fidel Castro's beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released...