Word: revolucion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion was alive with masses of Cubans obediently chanting slogans and cheering their bearded leader. It was the sixth anniversary of Fidel Castro's rise to power -presumably a time for triumphant muscle flexing. But this year's military parade was whittled to 30 minutes, instead of an hour, and Castro's speech was almost subdued. "Parades," said he, "are very expensive, and it is natural that in concluding the Year of the Economy we save expenses...
...fingered by "Witness" Castro were the editor of the newspaper Revolucion and the vice minister of the armed forces. The editor lost his job, and the vice minister obediently made a public breast-beating confession of his errors. To Castrologists, all this meant that Castro was making sure that the old-guard Communists knew who was boss...
...combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
...himself provided comic relief in the drive to meet the eight-day deadline. When he pontificated polysyllabically over the loudspeaker system, Olivier cracked: "He uses such big words I can't understand him." Once Susskind was accidentally bumped by a prop pickup truck bearing the words VIVA LA REVOLUCION. "Caramba!" shouted the actor-driver. "I just got my first gringo." But in the end David Susskind had demonstrated again what even his most articulate enemies will readily concede: he is responsible for some of the best material that has ever reached the U.S. television screen...
...REVOLUCION, the Castro government mouthpiece in Havana: With the Monroe Doctrine and the treaties at Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, three useless documents, the U.S. pretends to legalize its armed assault against Cuba. It would be a laughing matter if it were not for the fact that it will cost so much blood...