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Sparing neither velvet draperies, nor soft polish on exotic wood, nor white silk for the crapshooters' dinner jackets, the new casinos of Havana rate as the hemisphere's most alluring and elegant. Says a dice man in the deep-carpeted gaming room of the Hotel Nacional: "We are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Game of Casino | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Grabbed Officers. The blowup was triggered on New Year's Eve in Caracas; Brigadier General Hugo Fuentes, the tall, gaunt commander of Venezuela's 20,000-man ground forces, was on his way to the President's reception when secret police arrested him. Grabbed at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Jets over Caracas | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

The government's authorization of voting by foreigners, and its heavy pressure for everyone to vote, disturbed the 70,000 U.S. citizens who live in Venezuela, until the U.S. embassy got them off the hook by warning them that they could lose U.S. citizenship if they voted. Also troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Adhesion | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

"Art is a man's world, and people have a prejudice against women artists. And rightly so, because most women artists are lousy. As a rule they paint little, squidgy, fancy things, all prettied up like valentines, and I don't blame the public for not liking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Les Girls | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

But many a Cuban, though he could no longer read about the bombs, could still hear the noisy blasts they made. Three nights out of six. explosions ripped the Havana air at exactly 8:30 p.m.. leading thousands to conclude that they had better stay home evenings. Apparently by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Tonight at 8:30 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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