Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
Mirabal's arrest was preceded by a general roundup of nine Communist leaders in Puerto Rico and one Puerto Rican Red in New York. Among those arrested was New York-educated Mrs. Jane Speed de Andreu, formerly of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. de Andreu, a descendant of George Washington's personal physician, Dr. James Craik, is a well-seasoned veteran of the Communist cause. Once jailed in Birmingham for almost inciting a race riot, she is chiefly remembered for tossing an inkpot at the Italian vice consul in 1935 (on the grounds that he was a Fascist). Her husband...
...scratch single. In the field, he was the same old picture of graceful perfection. If Willie and his teammate Ruben Gomez (who pitches for Santurce) found anything different about Caribbean baseball, it was the ball itself. Much more lively than the ball big leaguers are used to, the Puerto Rican special is a real rabbit ball. Batters can clobber it; pitchers learn how to throw and duck if they want to hang onto their heads...
...fans are more lively, too; not even in enemy Ebbets Field is the razzberry rendered with such enthusiasm. Nor do U.S. bleacher jockeys often get involved in the free-for-alls that brighten the Puerto Rican afternoon. Not long ago, a cop caught a razor-blade salesman handing out free samples in the San Juan stands. Puerto Rican fans have never been known to shave between innings, but they are apt to find other uses for razors...
...that it had granted visas to eleven churchmen from behind the Iron Curtain-Czechoslovakia and Hungary-to attend the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches Aug. 15-31 in Evanston, Ill. To Michigan's Republican Representative Alvin M. Bentley (now recovered from the shooting by Puerto Rican terrorists, TIME, March 8), the admission of "these servants of world Communism" seemed "naive"-and headline-worthy as well. He announced that the House subcommittee to investigate the communization of Russia's European satellites would begin hearings during the Evanston conference. Said Congregationalist Bentley: "I will spare no opportunity...