Word: taber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his return to the U.S. last March. ex-CBS Newsman Robert Taber, a founder of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, figured in Castro's English-language broadcasts. Another who still does is Barbara Collins, also known as "Beardless Barbara," the 25-year-old daughter of a New Jersey clergyman. With her small daughter in hand, she skipped to Havana on a cruise ship, took out Cuban citizenship, and now chats winningly about the charms of Communist Cuba. Robert Williams, 37, a North Carolina Negro who fled the U.S. to escape kid nap charges, denounces...
...Cold in the Sea. Even Frenchmen, traditionally set in their views, whether Catholic, Protestant or skeptic, are giving a hearing to the young Americans who come to call. In the southern industrial city of Nimes (pop. 90,000), Craig Colton, 22, of Los Angeles and Gary Harris, 20, of Taber, Alberta talk with 50 to 100 people...
...second speaker, Rober Taber, former CBS correspondent in Cuba and now executive secretary of the newly formed National Fair Play for Cuba Committee, declared that opposition to state department Cuban policy "constantly on the rise...
...Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...
...billion foreign-aid bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker Sam Rayburn-thanks to a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats engineered by Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. New York's Old Guard John Taber, longtime aid trimmer, led the disciplined Republican ranks in bidding for $200 million more for military assistance (total: $1.8 billion), which the Democrats supported. In return, Halleck & Co. voted to restore U.S. aid ($515 million over ten years) to the Indus River project for India and Pakistan, a favorite liberal...