Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, Henry Wallace,* TIME'S string correspondent in Havana, Cuba, sent us a report of his work covering the news for us there. In it he made the following comment...
When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
...guns from Havana which were seized by the Cuban army...
...polls closed promptly at 6 p.m. By 7:15, smiling, handsome Carlos Prio Socarras had heard enough of the returns to know that he would be Cuba's next President. He left the Havana headquarters of the Auténtico Party, hustled home to change his guayabera (sport shirt) and slacks for a white linen suit. Then he rode off to the presidential palace in a horn-tooting, placard-plastered motorcade...
Toughest obstacle to Núñez' success: Cuba's sugar prosperity. Observers in Havana thought he had a fair chance if he could keep up his killing pace...