Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time it takes him to catch on that he is working for a murdering thug, Chauffeur Cummings has fallen in love with the boss's wife (Michele Morgan). How can the terrified lovers, surrounded by cutthroats, escape together on the night boat to Havana? In the better type of thriller, villains are foiled through the hero's ingenuity. The Chase's happy ending leans far too heavily on wrenched coincidence and pouncing Providence...
...town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported ready to climb down. What Money Buys. Owning his own land (some 67 acres), a superior four-room wooden house and possessing three oxen, a couple of cows and a horse (the local equivalent...
...roads, and the rest of President Grau's program for raising rural standards of living and abating the tyranny of King Sugar, Nicolás said: "The work the politicians do for the campesino is tomorrow, and I have to live today. I have never received anything from Havana, and don't know of anyone who has. To the politicians the campesino is just a poor campesino, and they let it go at that...
...Havana weltered in a heavy crime wave. So far this year there had been some 48 murders, practically all of them black-sedan-and-submachine-gun jobs in South Chicago style. Most seemed to be political, the vengeance of hot-headed young terrorists exploding against officials of the Batista regime now that the dictator was out, the war over and the country economically upset. When assassins shot an ex-police chief as he read the paper one evening on his front porch, they left behind the sign of the Union of Revolutionaries: "Justice comes late, but it comes...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...