Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scion of a famous Cuban family (his father was a hero of the 1898 War of Independence against Spain), Escalante drifted into the Communist Party in the early 1930s. His talent for words, ideas and persuasion was quickly noted; in 1938 he founded and became the first editor of a Communist daily, Hoy. As executive secretary of the party and a leading formulator of its policies when Fidel Castro entered Havana in 1959, Escalante praised Castro as "nationalist, progressive, democratic" but complained at the time that the bearded rebel's 26th of July movement was "not completely integrated...
...Senator raised a few eyebrows, but already the two would-be candidates were busy polishing up their campaign styles and mending minority fences overseas. While Eddie, 38, who is state attorney general and the nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, headed off for Italy, Israel, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Britain, Teddy barnstormed through Belgium, Israel, Greece, Poland, France, West Germany and Austria. Regardless of how he fared abroad, however, ambitious Teddy Kennedy this week was slated to clear one major hurdle toward the Senate: the birthday that would bring him to the constitutionally required...
...three whose names are held secretly in pectore, "in the heart" of the Pope). In little more than a year, nine cardinals have died. Among the new cardinals are three Italians, giving them a total of 30 in the college. The others are from Syria, Peru, Chile, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. No new American cardinals were added to the present five...
...dodger (Rex Harrison) of the sort that stole Goya's Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London (TIME, Sept. 1). With the help of a dumb broad (Rita Hay worth) and a clever painterfeiter (Joseph Wiseman), Rex artnaps a Velásquez from a castle in Spain. But a sinister grandee (Grégoire Aslan) steals it back, and before long bodies are dropping almost as fast as bum mots ("I want so much to be a first-class crook for you, darling"). Rita, 42 when this picture was made, and Rex, 53, are both old enough...
...same distance. Hemingway wrote pieces for New Masses (he was praised because his style resembled Lenin's!), starred at writers' congresses, where he helped the party put the kibosh on Trotskyites, and called himself a "loyal man of the left." But he traveled no farther than Spain. No ideologue, he never accepted the Marxist doublethink that enabled so many others to blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party...