Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week six men went through the Cabaña routine, convicted of multiple murder and robbery of their victims. In Bayamo, Oriente province, three army privates were shot for torturing and killing four prisoners. At Pinar del Rio three ex-soldiers were executed; at Manzanillo a policeman and a soldier were cut down.* At week's end the total of the executed stood at 302, with more to come. On trial for their lives in Santiago were 20 army pilots and 20 bombardiers, charged with "genocide" for bombing and strafing "open towns" in rebel-held Oriente province. Many...
What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous...
...dealer to ship twelve more to him. But in Cuba, Castro proved that tactical air superiority is pointless over heavy forests in a Caribbean filibuster. Far more valuable to Trujillo are 1) his efficient small-arms plant in his native city of San Cristobal, and 2) the Rio agreement of 1947, which obliges the U.S. and its hemispheric neighbors to halt any invasion fleet bent on disturbing the peace...
...great interest in our conduct toward Cuba, and that there is now a growing wave of anti-Americanism in that country as a result of the pronouncements of the past few weeks. If the United States is to retain the respect of the Spanish-speaking countries south of the Rio Grande, it must quickly develop a realistic and sensible attitude toward Cuban internal affairs.The president of the student body of Havana University lies dead after being shot down in the gutter before the university. A student resistance movement was named after the date of his death, March...