Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cuba's President Carlos Prío Socarrás decided to scrap Havana's rattletrap trolleys in favor of buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields. Many Cubans regard him as a combination financial wizard and philanthropist...
...Coach buses, led the attack. "Behind this deal," shrilled El Mundo, "is a rapacious promoter internationally known for his misdeeds and crooked deals, a buzzard who presents himself to us disguised as the Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came to Havana and said: "I have come to exchange the old streetcars for modern buses to benefit the population.' But what he really intends to do is exchange the goat...
...Hotel Nacional suite, Prío postponed official announcement of the deal and rallied his forces. Led by the conductors, whom Pawley had promised to keep on the job, the trolley union lined up behind the new plan. Straphangers enthusiastically supported Prío for forcing action to rid Havana of its noisy, run-down trolleys. The influential weekly Bohemia hailed Pawley as "one of the most distinguished figures in the U.S., whose various enter prises, including aviation firms in India and China, make his biography a true teaching in industry and social service...
...will have to fight for what he gets. At week's end, Havana's other bus system, Omnibus Aliados, announced that, "thanks to the cooperation of General Motors," arrangements were being completed for the purchase of 300 new G.M.C. de luxe buses...
Last month Dr. Guanche's million-dollar new Reclusorio Nacional de Mujeres was ready for occupants. The prisoners who were moved there found it a spacious, sunlit, flower-hedged cluster of white buildings 27 miles west of Havana. For each inmate there was an airy, pastel-tinted cell, with toilet and hot & cold running water. Dinner was eaten, tearoom fashion, at small, flower-decorated tables. Reclusorio has a nursery and playground for children of prisoners, and a basketball court. For trusties, there is even a beauty parlor...