Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many sentimental Cubans were saddened when a U.S. belly dancer named Patricia ("Satira") Schmidt got a 15-year sentence for killing her yachtsman-lover in Havana two years ago. They not only thought that the penalty was outrageous, they were grieved by the fact that she was sentenced to serve the time in the old Guanabacoa prison. After she had spent 18 months there, President Ramón Grau San Martin set Satira free...
...parade followed Senator Lucas to the Havana high-school gymnasium where everybody but the four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist, had seemingly abandoned his position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign...
Fifteen hundred people, four horses and one pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...
...Havana gym, Scott Lucas accepted Dirksen's challenge-and managed to make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone to Illinois factories or farms." Argued Lucas: the Marshall Plan brought Moline, Peoria and Chicago nearly $50 million in orders in the first nine months of the plan alone...
Latin America will get extraordinary attention from top U.S. foreign policymakers in the new year. In January, Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller, in charge of U.S.-Latin American affairs, will preside over a meeting in Havana for U.S. ambassadors in the Caribbean area. In March, the State Department's retiring planning chief, George Kennan, on his swing around the hemisphere, will stop off in Rio to attend a meeting of U.S. ambassadors in South American countries. And both President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson have said that they hope to visit Latin America sometime...