Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana. His 6,000-man column, moving in captured tanks, Jeeps, cars, trucks and buses, drew clusters of flag-waving Cubans along every road, was stopped in its tracks by crushing crowds in every city. Castro himself was folksy, eloquent and tireless. "How will we enter Havana?" he asked. "Let me see, we will go along the Malecon and then we will turn up that avenue-what is it called-General something?" The crowd roared "General Batista!" and Castro bent double laughing...
...foreign affairs, Castro seemed principally concerned with Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave refuge to Batista. "Let Trujillo start trouble," he boasted. "We'd like that." Castro, who holds only the title of "delegate of the President to the armed forces," promised a thorough housecleaning of the military...
...rivalry with Russia is not a simple propaganda battle. Says one spaceman: "We could concentrate entirely on our military developments and let the Russians have space to themselves. Would we thus make ourselves impregnable? No, because the rest of the world simply would not believe that we were impregnable. It would look to Russia as the clear leader-and the battle would be lost before it was fought...
...university's overseas base, twelve miles from Stuttgart, is a rarity-other American colleges and universities let their undergraduates study abroad, but -few have foreign campuses-and Stanford is well pleased with the project. Because classes in such subjects as political science, art history and philosophy are conducted by Stanford professors in English, admission to Landgut Burg is not restricted to language majors and the few other students able to speak German-usually a limitation of the year-abroad programs run by other U.S. institutions...
...comprehensive credit card that will permit holders to charge everything from shoes and doctors' bills to liquor and the costs of artificial insemination of cows. "Bankamericard" customers will be billed at the end of each month, charged 1½%-a-month interest if they wish to let the bill go longer than 25 days. The cards are free and available to nondepositors. The bank will collect up to 6% from participating merchants on purchases...