Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SINCE October 1957 your copy of TIME has been printed in one of seven cities-four in the U.S., three overseas. The U.S. and Canadian editions are printed by plants in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, overseas editions in Paris, Tokyo and Havana. This week TIME rolled off presses in an eighth plant: Williams Press Inc. in Albany...
...descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said Pablo Vélez. 23, "We were going to make a lot of money and shoot down Trujillo...
Asked by the Cuban Tourist Commission for ideas on how to stimulate Miami-to-Havana tourist traffic, a relative trickle ever since Fidel Castro and his supporters took power, Miami's Mayor Robert King High gave the whiskered Cubans some terse " advice: "Shave...
...midweek Castro reminded the guajiros that they were in Havana to do a political job. Railing against the "infamous" foreign press and "foreign plutocrats," he defended his one-man rule as "Athenian democracy" and warned that "the guajiros are here with their machetes to defend the revolution, and their machetes are sharp." Next day Castro's labor leaders closed down the city for an hour with a general strike, "demanding" that he return to office...
...Strike Three!" The Castro adulation grew. Appearing one night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...