Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long would Batista be able to operate without his coercive apparatus? Widely circulated Bohemia magazine announced that its next edition would contain many facts and stories suppressed under censorship. The rebels said they would try to bring off a general strike in Havana. At week's end, emboldened rebel bands seized two Havana radio stations long enough to broadcast anti-Batista recordings, forcefully pointing out what a general strike had achieved in Caracas...
...impenetrable Sierra Maestra, where they had hidden for 13 months, poured the men of Cuban Rebel Chief Fidel Castro last week. Twenty miles out from the foothills, they surrounded the bustling sugar port of Manzanillo (pop. 100,000), attacked and halted Havana-bound trains and buses, burned automobiles, rice and sugar installations, then vanished at nightfall...
...year passed before such palaces as the new Havana Riviera and Capri hotels could be built and before the mob could raise the "nut"-the bankroll behind the chips. But by last month ten Havana casinos were going, most of them profitable from the first roll. Running the Sans Souci casino was a Lansky hood, Santo Trafficante Jr.; at several others Lansky was the boss or named the boss...
Fight for the Hilton. One luxurious casino is still to open, in the 630-room Havana Hilton Hotel, now abuilding, and New York police have documents showing that Racketeer Anastasia wanted to muscle in on Havana gambling. But if Anastasia had a yen to get control of the Havana Hilton casino, Meyer Lansky was equally set on keeping him out. A Lansky agent, Joseph Silesi, turned up among the 13 groups that went to Hilton Hotels International with bids to run the casino...
...Cold air from Alaska swept to the Gulf of Mexico and mixed with warm, moist air there. Such mixing always causes meteorological fireworks. During Jan. 2-3, Florida and Cuba had one of the worst winter storms on record, with 70-mile gusts uprooting palm trees and drenching Havana hotels with salt spray. No sooner had the storm got out of the way than another formed over Texas and moved east. Snow fell in Fort Myers, southern Florida for the first time on record. Florida children were released from school to enjoy the unusual sight. Tourists in Miami shivered...