Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumph was a story followed closely from the start. A month after Castro's invasion, TIME reported that "Batista's troops sent to kill the rebels lacked the heart or the ability to do so." In November 1957 a TIME correspondent interviewed Dictator Batista in Havana, met the next day in Santiago with Castro's hunted underground chief. On a later swing he took off to the hills to see Castro, watched an air-ground battle from behind rebel lines. TIME early reported that Castro was acting "like a king," and might "become the brilliant liberator...
...Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin visit (TIME, Dec. 15), thought Mikoyan showed "flexibility of attitude...
...much in common. Each was a native Alabaman. Each worked his way through school. They met and became friends at the University of Alabama law school in the early 1940s. Each served in World War II and came home with decorations. Each became a judge. And it was in that capacity, somehow symbolic of the stresses under which the law has come in the South, that U.S. District Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. in Montgomery last week ordered Alabama Circuit Judge George Corley Wallace to show cause "if any there be" why he should not be punished for contempt...
...factor in choosing political convention sites. More important to coffer-conscious political leaders is the amount that major U.S. cities are willing to pay for the prestige of a convention and for the loot that flows in for hotel rooms, meals, entertainment, etc. Last week, when Democratic National Committeemen met in New Orleans to pick their 1960 convention site, representatives of four cities-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Philadelphia-were willing, and waving sizable sums of cash...
Decimation. Six days later Castro landed on the southern shore of Oriente province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...