Word: mart
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...onetime welfare worker, daughter of Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former (1938-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy; and Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 37, assistant general manager of his father-in-law's Merchandise Mart in Chicago; in a ceremony performed by Francis Cardinal Spellman; in Manhattan...
With flags, band music and thunderous oratory, Cuba last week celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the island's liberator. A ballet, headed by Cuba-born Alicia Alonso, performed nightly in an outdoor theater; 7,000 torch-bearing paraders marched at midnight; schoolchildren dropped a thousand white flowers at the base of the Marti monument. For a week, Cubans laid aside strong talk about their strong man, General Fulgencio Batista, and gave themselves over to honoring one of Latin America's greatest, though least known, historical figures...
...Martí was born in Havana, the son of one of Spain's own soldiers, on Jan. 28, 1853. At 15 he was jailed for his sympathies with the rebels in the unsuccessful Ten Years War (1868-78) against Spain. He served 18 months, six of them on a chain gang in a quarry, where he was burned by quicklime and flogged by guards. Then he was exiled to Spain. Except for three brief return trips, he spent the rest of his life outside Cuba-in Spain, France, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and the U.S., "the land where everyone...
...White Horse. Martí became the established political leader of all Cuban exiles. In the cigar factories of Tampa and Key West, he persuaded Cuban workers to join his Revolutionary Party and give a day's wages every week to the cause. Tactfully, he brought the proud generals of the Ten Years War under his command; incongruously, he haggled with munitions salesmen in New York hotel lobbies. More than anyone else, he touched off the revolt...
...black night, he rowed ashore with his military chieftains from a German steamer to a secluded beach in eastern Cuba. A few weeks later, with troops landed elsewhere, the revolutionaries engaged the Spanish regulars near Camagüey. Dressed as usual in formal black, waving an unaccustomed pistol, Martí charged on a white horse. One of the first of the Spanish bullets smashed through his breast and killed him. He was 42. His death helped turn the uncertain, barefoot rebels into a band of machete-swinging warriors; he became a hero whose fiery slogans were remembered. Three years later...