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...Havana to eastern Oriente province, Matthews and his wife Nancie were "tourists"; at roadblocks, guards waved them on with friendly smiles. Leaving Nancie in the home of some Castro sympathizers, Matthews then rode in a rebel jeep deeper into the cane country around the range as "an American sugar planter who could not speak a word of Spanish," dressed "for a fishing trip"-which proved convincing to patrolling troops. The reporter, with escorts loyal to Castro, reached the foothills at midnight, slithered on afoot. At dawn, through whistled recognition signals, Matthews and Castro were brought together...
...Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians, Saud now thoroughly understood-if he could not yet publicly embrace-the Eisenhower doctrine. The talks, as President Eisenhower told his press conference, had cleared away much of "the underbrush of misunderstanding"; now the seeds could be planted, and clearly Saud would be a valued planter of U.S. offers of friendship and protection among his fellow Arabs...
Campaigning for the presidency, Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich planter, has been advertising himself as "a production engineer, not a politician." To the humble Haitian voters, Déjoie may be a haughty aristocrat, but his promises have made him a leading candidate. Last week, abundantly proving that he is not a politician, Déjoie threw away his lead...
...your children have your likenesses taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become part of the national heritage...
...uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama...