Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social stigma. Children remain with their mother and are accepted by the new husband in case of separation and remarriage. Two "trials" seem to be the maximum, and eighty per cent of the couples get married in the Church at the end of their first. A yearly ronda, or roundup, keeps the ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples are sleeping. These couples are apprehended and married, by force if necessary, the following Sunday in a mass Church ceremony. Some enterprising...
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cattle roundup on the biggest ranch in North America, the 1,000,000-acre Gang Ranch near Clinton...
Next fortnight he plans to take off for 13 weeks in the States on another money-raising roundup. This time the bishop hopes to be traveling on a brand-new passport-a Brazilian one. After long pondering the matter, he applied for Brazilian citizenship. "After 17 years of beans, rice, and transfusions by Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people...
...police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest...
...also hopeful talk that the underground in Cuba, realizing that the invasion was foredoomed, had buttoned up and managed to weather the storm. Manolo Ray, leader of the M.R.P. underground and a council member, admitted heavy losses among his people. But he believed that many survived the Castro roundup. "In four months," said Ray, "we will be stronger than before." Yet other leaders say that the underground, like the exile army, is wrecked...