Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like New Yorkers, habaneros worry about their water supply. Long a perplexing problem because of Havana's never-ceasing growth and the difficulties of piping it into town, the shortage of water led Mayor Fernández Supervielle to suicide three years ago. His successor Nicolás Castellanos, former president of the city council, refused to despair. Energetically he built up the city's reservoirs. Last week a grateful citizenry elected Castellanos mayor in his own right...
...hopes that the 1948 race conditions will again prevail; at that time all but 65 miles of the run was a reach. The "Troubador" recently raced in the Miami-Nassau race, doing well, while her sister ship, the "Astrea" won the class B title in the March St. Petersburg-Havana race...
...bets more skillfully than he plays), takes off on hunting trips, and at Christmas dresses up as Santa Claus for the children of his 2,401 employees. But the leisurely pace never gets into his business operations. He has applied for additional routes inside & outside the U.S. (e.g., from Havana to Washington and New York). Says he: "All my life I've wanted to see a little farther over the horizon, and the horizon keeps getting farther away...
...places, skiing like a damned champion at Cortina [in Italy]. Last year it was the right leg ... We had good duck and goose shooting, and Venice and Paris were both as fine as ever. Am a boy with five home towns now-Paris, Venice, Ketchum [Idaho], Key West and Havana...
Work on commercial sailing vessels or steamers is usually hard to get without a union card. Holt said, last year, several students felt the lure of the sea sufficiently strongly to forego profit, chip in, and sail their own boat to Havana...