Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro's revolution had never moved at higher speed. Grinding out decree after decree last week, the Prime Minister ordered some 500 prisoners turned over to civilian courts, promised to restore the right of habeas corpus within 90 days, reopened the University of Havana, confiscated the holdings of 117 firms (mostly construction companies that gave kickbacks to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista). This week, Castro transported the entire Cuban Cabinet into the Sierra Maestra country, where his revolution began, and promulgated his pet law-land reform. He brought along $1,000,000 to make the first farm loans...
...from the path." Undeterred, a top Chilean Red, Luis Cor-valan, declared: "We must march with the bourgeoisie, and Cuba is the example." While Communists praised the revolution, many moderate Cubans who supported Castro from the start are losing faith. "It's a swindle," said a prosperous Havana professional man. These former Castro supporters deplore his confiscating land decrees, the conduct of some of his men and the course of his government. Castro soldiers careen about the city in Jeeps with guns in their belts and girls at their sides. Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro is living...
...Happened to Jane (Arwin; Columbia). "Why,'' asks a small boy, gazing up into the homely face of Ernie Kovacs, "are you so mean?" Smugly lipping his expensive Havana, Kovacs simpers like a contented cigargoyle at one of the nicest things anybody has ever said to "the meanest man in the world." As such, and proud of it, Comic Kovacs turns a fairly unfunny script into a funny farce-the success story of a self-made monster...
...parade in Havana. Without the hero, the 15 hours of parades and speeches went on anyway before the brooding statue of Liberator Jose Marti in Plaza Civica. Motorcycle cops led off in new white crash helmets, followed by marines in maroon berets, MPs in black berets, and more than 206,000 laborers. "Fidel,'when you get time, remember the chauffeurs," pleaded one giant placard. But the Reds knew Castro's new mood; pro-Communist sloganeering was conspicuously missing...
...Freedom of the press was under attack. El Mundo Writer Juan Luis Martin, an active antiCommunist, was arrested secretly and held for two weeks without charges. Feeling their revolutionary oats. composing-room workers on two Havana papers last week demanded the right to edit stories before setting them in type...