Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of United Brands Co., a $2 billion conglomerate; in a 44-story plunge from his office in Manhattan's Pan Am Building. An ordained rabbi before going into business, Black in 1967 acquired John Morrell & Co., an ailing $800 million meat packer, which he merged with United Fruit Co. in 1970. Throughout 1974 a series of crises bled Black's empire: hurricanes wrecked Honduran banana plantations, Central American governments imposed heavy export taxes, and the cost of feeding cattle skyrocketed. Since November, when United Brands reported losing over $40 million in the year's first three...
...point in his career where Michael seems on the verge of respectability. In partnership with Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), he is about to transfer a large part of his wealth into more-or-less legitimate Cuban hotels and casinos. Along with executives of companies like United Fruit and "U.T.T." he goes to Havana to be honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird, near-surrealist climax the Cuban President announces his resignation ("due to the success of the guerilla groups...
...ivories in a Kansas whorehouse, might reserve for ten minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life: nothing but wind and delusion. Benton made no bones about his idea that nearly everything in art since the Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled, was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people...
...explain work-study in Cuba. "All of our students work. From primary to the college level, students spend part of their time in school studying and part of their school time doing work. Socialism in Cuba aims to integrate theory and practice." As she stopped to sip her fruit juice, I asked her the rationale behind Cuba's work-study program. Ilda hesitated with a half smile and curious facial expression as if she thought the reasoning was obvious. "Work-study puts more producers in the economy. Under socialism," she emphasized, "everybody works. Second of all, this type of program...
...officials from the Communist Party, Federation of University Students, Union of Young Communists and Federation of Cuban Women. The conference room contained a 29-seat table and a small table where our interpreters operated microphone equipment for simultaneous translation. By the door, a portable table carried ginger ales and fruit juice drinks. Three of our delegates snapped pictures of the meeting. Several of the Cubans smoked cigars. I could see that some of us had picked up the habit of smoking Cuban cigars. They had a very mild taste--sometimes almost sweet. One of the officials began. "Comrades and friends...