Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late jam sessions, midnight until unconscious," advertised one nightclub. In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed...
...anti-Castro forces, who they were and how they felt, has long been a subject close to the heart of Contributing Editor Sam Halper, a member of TIME's staff since 1950. Before Fidel Castro came to power, Halper spent three days with him in his eastern Sierra Maestra hideout in April 1958 and there first began to suspect the ultimate direction of this romantic-seeming revolutionary, so quick to execute those he disagreed with. He described Castro then as "democrat by philosophy, autocrat by personality." In recent months so many Cuban exiles have stopped by to see Halper...
...Cuba, the Roman Circus was on. Radios blared the March of the Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government...
...soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization had made him leader of the highly effective underground movement against Batista in Havana. Ray became Castro's Minister of Public Works, and stood it until November 1959, shortly after Castro jailed one of his comrades-in-arms in the Sierra Maestra, Huber Matos, for objecting to Communist infiltration of the revolutionary army. Ray angrily resigned his Cabinet post and went back to teaching engineering at the University of Havana. When the Communists took over the university as well, in July 1960, he resigned again and dropped out of sight to reorganize...
...here." That was four years ago. Since then, one African diplomat has been turned away from a Virginia drive-in theater. Another, with his daughter, was stopped at the gate of a Maryland amusement park. Last month, Dr. William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires of newly emerging Sierra Leone, was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson restaurant, this one in Hagerstown, Md. In recent weeks, according to U.S. State Department reports, diplomatic staffers from Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroun and Ethiopia have suffered indignities of various sorts because of the color of their skin...