Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smuggling arms. Castro's brother Raul, commanding a column of recruits as big as Fidel's, kept an airstrip open on mountain pastures. By spring of 1958 arms flights became big and frequent-notably from rich Venezuela, which had just thrown off a dictatorship. Cubans in Florida regularly flew planeloads of arms from small airports in Broward County and at Ocala and Lakeland, once made a fire-bomb...
...time I've been here I have tried to do things that were correct, and to be correct you can only deal with the government to which you are accredited," said Earl Edward Tailer Smith, the stockbroker and former member of the Republican National Finance Committee (for Florida) who became U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in 1957. Being correct meant keeping in contact with Batista, and that, to the new rebel government, constituted support for Batista. Last week, after the U.S. became the twelfth country to recognize the new Cuban government, Ambassador Smith, 55, cleared the way for cordial relations...
...outdo his previous exploits as a canny hooker of the skittery bonefish (the Miami Chamber of Commerce once cited him for landing an unusually healthy 13-pounder), ex-President Herbert Hoover, 84, relaxed aboard a yacht after his arrival in Florida with gee-whiz approval of his first jet ride: "It's a true revolution in air travel. It's going to make a great change in the American scene...
...about the same time, a Miami-to-Chicago train bringing Marshall Field Jr., 42, publisher of the morning Chicago Sun-Times, and his family home from a Florida holiday pulled into the 63rd Street station. There, to avoid reporters he knew would be waiting for him at the downtown terminal. Field got out alone. He had a secret too-the same as Walters'. Next day Field called Chesser Campbell, publisher of the rival-and dominant-morning Chicago Tribune. "I wanted you to be the first to know," he said, with the air of a man who has just slipped...
Cordiner will not have to retire until 1965, but he has planned his retirement as carefully as G.E.'s future (friends are convinced he has the date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...