Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hotelman Conrad Hilton had a busy week. To the string of 17 hotels he operates around the world, he added an 18th, by a deal in Manhattan. To the six other hotels he has abuilding or contracted for around the world, he added a seventh in another deal in Havana. In Manhattan, he bought the 43-story New Yorker Hotel for $12.5 million. Actually, Hilton paid no cash on the transaction: instead, he gave the Manufacturers Trust Co.. owner of the New Yorker, 111,960 shares of preferred and common stock in the Hilton Hotels Corp. (worth...
FROM a midevening rendezvous at a Havana bar frequented by American tourists, I was brought by a devious route, with several stops and three changes of cars, to a house where a man with a Tommy gun stood guard at the door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid...
...Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...
...from the audience, and Dixieland partisans, if any, behaved themselves. Kenton & Co. gave them a program of tightly orchestrated originals, emphasizing in turn their lush reeds and knife-edged brasses. After listening to such Kenton favorites as Collaboration, Opus in Pastels, 23 North, 82 West (the coordinates of Havana), the crowd whooped "Bis! Bis!" Said Kenton, in a curtain speech: "You have been very wonderful ... I was most concerned...
After he left the clinic where he had been treated for a head injury last month, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana, maintained an austere silence while Cuba buzzed with rumors that he had been pistol-whipped during a search of his palace by agents looking for hidden revolutionaries or weapons (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the cardinal shed a little light on the mystery; in a pastoral letter he said he had been the victim of "a common criminal attempt" by men whom he did not know, but whom he wished to forgive "in the Christian way." That...