Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro himself is egotistic, impulsive, immature, disorganized. A spellbinding romantic, he can talk spontaneously for as much as five hours without strain. He hates desks-behind which he may have to sit to run Cuba. He sleeps irregularly or forgets to sleep, living on euphoria. He has always been late for everything, whether leading a combat patrol or speaking last week to the Havana Rotary Club, where a blue-ribbon audience waited 4¾ hours for his arrival. Wildly, he blasted U.S. arms aid to Batista, but he paid a friendly call at 1 a.m. on the ambassador from Britain...
...Cuba Bonsai will represent the U.S. before a government making an erratic return to democracy and prone to blame Washington for all its troubles. But he has a unique spiritual link with an earlier rebel Cuba through his late father, Journalist-Diplomat Stephen Bonsai, who in 1897 wrote The Real Condition of Cuba, an eloquent report on the tyranny that won him the gratitude of the rebels, later a Cuban decoration...
Most of the Dulles conference was devoted to discussion of the German reunification problem. The Secretary had characterized as "brutal" and "stupid" the latest Russian proposals for reunifying Germany, had restated his adherence to U.S. policy on Germany: "We believe in reunification by free elections.'' Late in the conference (the 26th question), the Newark News's able Reporter Arthur Sylvester spoke...
...FORCE FORECASTS ACTIVITY DECLINE AT PALMDALE AIRPORT, read the Page One banner headline. The story below quoted Air Force officials who said employment at the facility on the edge of the Mojave desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, would be reduced from 3,542 to 1,972 by late...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. An epic arrow-flight of adventure, passion and soul-searching from the literary bow of Greece's late, famed man of letters...