Word: siboney
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...worried strongman last week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...Patrick's High School (his closest friend was Al Capone's son Albert), and got a part-time job cleaning canary cages for a firm which sold birds to local drugstores. He soon found steadier work as a guitarist in a four-piece band incongruously called the Siboney Sextette. The critics agreed on Desi's meager musical gifts. "He was always off-beat," says Theater Owner Carlos Montalban. "But he's an awfully nice guy-a clean-cut Latin...
...doubt as to who, exactly, is writing the laws. But there is never any doubt as to who is the chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could scarcely be blamed for supposing was the Cuban National Anthem-Siboney.* He wrote Canto Karabali (Jungle Drums), Andalucia (The Breeze and I), La Comparsa, Say Si Si, Maria La O, and a host of other numbers which have made Cuban melody world-famed...
...Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest...
...Stars), a squadron commander in the French Air Force, made photographic reconnaissance flights over the German lines. Once he was almost shot down by the Nazis, barely got his plane back safely. After France fell, Saint Exupery was decorated. Last week he landed in Manhattan from the steamer Siboney out of Lisbon. In his suitcase was a brand-new manuscript...