Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With the 200,000-man NATO-commanded Italian army...
...last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel Hidalgo Dam, finished last year...
...last minute is permitted to walk out of the theater wearing a pious smirk. The problem could hardly have been muffed by the dumbest director, but for some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Beat the Demi. And Huston, as nobody will be surprised to hear, has developed his unsubtly sensational theme into a big, slick composition that might appropriately be described as a rhapsody expressly composed for a thousand cash registers...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...huddled on the ground at sunup one day last week, talking in guarded whispers. One of the men was Fidel Castro, 30, the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run from hideouts in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra range (TIME, Feb. 25 et ante). The other was Herbert Matthews, 57, veteran war reporter (Ethiopia, Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told how he crossed the battle lines, described the rebels' guerrilla life...