Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, 68, who as Cuba's Secretary of the Interior under ill-famed President Machado ran the secret police, was blamed for numerous wholesale political assassinations; in bed; in a Havana suburb...
Your note about Oscar the seal in the Miscellany column [TIME, April 7] was not completely correct. I know as I met Captain Knowles very recently on a trip to Havana. He had owned Oscar ten years ago when the seal was only a few months old. One day a neighbor allowed Oscar to escape from his pen in the Captain's garden and until a few months ago no more was seen...
...adjoining cage M'Toto manages to look a lot like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed...
...Havana, where one Italian freighter was seized, the home of Minister of State Dr. José Manuel Cortina was bombed-in reprisal, Dr. Cortina charged...
Three years ago at a conference in Havana, radio experts from Canada, Mexico, Cuba and the U. S. sat down to unsnarl the tangled North American air waves. At the time, all kinds of signals were jumping over borders to jam up any programs that got into their path...