Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manuel Greenhill, manager of Folklore Productions, which was to sponsor the Boston concert, said he had been unable to wait for the results of MacColl's appeal and had canceled the appearance. He said it was a "sad commentary on the State Department that such a thing should happen to two wonderful people...
...State Department hastily assured Spain that there was no evidence that the attackers came from U.S. territory-though it was not certain where they did come from. The strongest and most active exile group is Manuel Artime's Revolutionary Recovery Movement, which blew up a sugar mill on Cuba's southern coast last May and shot up a Russian radar station in the same area two weeks ago. Artime, a leader in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, now operates out of Central America, is believed to have some dozen torpedo boats armed with 57-mm. recoilless rifles...
...Mistake. Three weeks ago, "Bulletproof" Perpétuo's luck finally failed. His downfall began when a convicted murderer, "Horseface" Manuel Moreira, got a parole "by mistake" and, once out of jail, shot a close colleague of Perpétuo's. Enraged by the bureaucratic sloppiness that released Horseface in the first place, Perpétuo dropped everything and went after the killer. Though the rest of the force was stymied, he had a good lead within two days. But while he was waiting in a bar for Horseface to show up, two cops from another district wandered...
...Cuba, the 275,000 Cuban exiles in the U.S. and around the Caribbean have long since ceased to pose a serious military threat to Fidel Castro. But they do manage to tweak the dictator's beard from time to time. The most successful of them seems to be Manuel Artime, 31, a leader of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion who heads an exile group calling itself the Revolutionary Recovery Movement. Last May, Artime's men blew up a sugar mill at Cabo Cruz on the south coast of Oriente province. Last week their target was a coastal...
...Manuel Cohen, a Brooklyn-born career lawyer for the commission, was recently appointed successor to William L. Cary. But no change is expected in the 1,500-man agency's vigorous policing of the stock market...