Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that there is no longer any censorship in Cuba, I want to tell you what a great service TIME performed during the past year. Because you had to print it in the U.S. more often than not, it often arrived late-but it arrived, and was the best way we had of keeping in touch with what was going on right here. That Dec. 1 map showing which parts of Cuba were under Castro control was the first information many of us had that the July 26th movement had won control of so much of this island...
...Often peace is identified with the imposition by strong nations of their 'benevolent' rule upon the weaker," said Dulles. "Most of these efforts collapsed in war . . . But the world of today is very different from the world of past centuries. It cannot be ruled. Hence the time is ripe for the rule...
...legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long past when Sarit closed nightclubs in another way- as the last customer. He has concentrated on a new constitution with Gaullist overtones, a new law to encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down the cost of living (in one month alone the index fell 12.7 points). Fortnight...
...After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...
...Fulgencio Batista's iron regime, and during the two years of Rebel Fidel Castro's mountain-locked resistance, Cuba got too little attention from the daily press. Scant word of Batista atrocities-of the Cubans who died at the hands of his army and his police-filtered past his porous censorship. The strength of the Castro position, after the revolt lapsed into a tropical stalemate, was misjudged...