Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference three weeks-ago President Eisenhower reported: "The Attorney General went after the case as quickly as it arose, went into New York City." Manhattan police, meanwhile, have sifted what one tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that in 1953 a "Trujillo agent" offered him $100,000 to kill Galindez, but he found the job "too risky." The New York police sent...
...tire plant at Havana, Cuba, to be ready by 1957; plus more millions to expand existing plants in eight nations (England, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Brazil); a big share of the $12 million cost of a new synthetic rubber plant which it will operate in Great Britain with other companies...
EVERY Wednesday morning, a motorcyclist in green uniform speeds from Rio's Catete Palace to Galeão Airport to meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...Beauty and the Beast" is a story about a hairy Havana high school senior who doesn't fit into the group, goes to bed with a prostitute, and finds that the socially acceptable fairy queen of the high school is neither off-beat nor a prostitute. The author, Robert Grindell, is another smooth writer, but his plot lacks both unity and message. He handles sex well, but his characters are not up to the experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate...
...home near Havana, Nobel Prize-winning Novelist Ernest Hemingway...