Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a dozen other presidents in his time, pulled the lanyard at 2:43 a.m. Monday. Aided by younger elements in the army, navy and police force, he achieved complete surprise. With a group of captains and lieutenants he seized control of Camp Columbia, the key army base outside Havana from which he first rode to power 19 years ago. Addressing the troops, he told them he was taking over because the country had lost confidence in the current "ward-heeler government." Batista, who had been a long-shot presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for June, also said...
...Though Batista announced that "free and honest elections will be held as soon as possible," it was at least questionable whether he would make the same mistake twice. He made little or no effort to round up and jail Prio's political pals. In noisy, politically turbulent Havana, all was calm and quiet as the Strong Man's tanks once again brought "disciplined democracy" to the streets...
...Havana's cavernous Sports Palace, 600 shouting, sweat-soaked partisans last week acclaimed Carlos Hevia, 52, as the official Auténtico Party's presidential candidate in the June elections. Next week five lesser parties in the pro-government coalition are scheduled to add their endorsement of President Carlos Prío's hand-picked choice for his successor...
...Hevia nomination was President Prío's response to the 1950 by-election setback, when voters fed up with entrenched political gangsterism and corruption upset his control in the city of Havana. Carlos Hevia is that almost unique Cuban man of affairs-a man of such universally acknowledged character as to be virtually above personal attack...
...Robert Lippincott, sailing his Star Class boat Mate to three straight victories, the 21st annual Cuba Cup race; at Havana...