Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two hundred miles southwest of Havana in south central Cuba lies the Sierra Escambray, an area of precipitous hills pocked with large caves and dominated by two 3,000-ft. peaks. The Escambray is fine country to hide in. Since May 1960, when the first anti-Communist defectors from Fidel...
Albion noted the possibility that Galvao may try to land the passengers in Brazil, where Gen. Humberto Delgado, and exiled Portuguese political leader, has taken refuge. Delgado revealed last night that the rebels acted under his authority and warned that the ship will resist if attacked.
...surviving 64,000 inmates to march to the Gross-Rosen camp near Breslau. Hundreds of prisoners died of exposure or were shot by guards when they fell by the way. Baer skipped ahead to Gross-Rosen; then, as the Russians surged on Berlin, he submerged himself in the refugee tide flowing west and found his way under an assumed name to his forest refuge east of Hamburg...
Two years ago Pianist Fou Ts'Ong, one of Communist China's brightest cultural lights, was sent to Britain for a concert. Instead of going home, he defected and immediately found refuge in the London home of middle-aging (44) Vio lin Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. There he met...
The favorite refuge of a critic confronted with a new piece of modern music is to plead that it demands a second hearing. Last week Conductor Leonard Bernstein obliged. He led the New York Philharmonic through a performance of Lukas Foss's Time Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra, an...