Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he really needed the favor. Worth roughly $20 million, Hedges runs his enterprises with a profitable smoothness that gives him time to dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place...
...costly, uninhibited frolic. Havana's only rival in Latin America is Rio. Last week the two high-living cities got set for a comparison by an expert: Cuban Industrialist Burke Hedges, 46. In his own Lockheed Lodestar, Hedges circled Rio's Santos Dumont airport one sunny afternoon, set down, stepped out with his secretary, valet, fulltime flight crew. Reason for the move: Hedges is Cuba's new Ambassador to Brazil...
...close relationship with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Born a U.S. citizen in Patchogue. L.I.. and educated at Georgia's Oglethorpe University, he went to Cuba to help run his father's textile mills. He met Batista at the Oriental Park race track near Havana one afternoon in 1939, struck up a friendship by striking a match for the dictator's cigar. The two got to know each other better during fishing expeditions and at parties in a house they shared in a seacoast town 27 miles outside of Havana...
Five months ago many Cubans thought that Rebel Chief Fidel Castro was through. His much-touted "total war" against President Fulgencio Batista was a total failure; the general strike in Havana that started literally with a bang ended with a whimper as local leaders went into hiding, shrilly blaming one another for the fiasco. That was early April. Last week reports sifting through heavy censorship indicated that Castro had made a notable comeback. Despite the rebels' continued grandstanding and disorganization, the swelling tide of popular discontent had carried them back to a position of strength...
...last week the rebels halted a Havana-Santiago train, killed most of the armed guard aboard, rescued a rebel leader being transported for trial and. after waiting vainly to ambush the expected counterattack, retired in leisurely fashion. Two days later they severed the SantiagoGuantanamo highway, blocked traffic for three hours, again withdrew without interference. Nightly, the rebels sniped at the army garrison guarding the Yateras waterworks, which supplies the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...