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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Cuba, Figueres had tried hard to fit into the revolutionary mood. He turned out in a baggy khaki uniform left over from his successful Costa Rican revolution of 1948. He arrived early for the big workers' parade in downtown Havana, sat dutifully on the speakers' stand while the unions marched, did not flinch when a drizzle began and Castro ordered the stand's striped tarpaulin ripped away, saying: "If the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: All Wet | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...build Japan's postwar defense forces, was a key figure in the successful diplomatic byplay that enabled the U.S. to keep strategic Okinawa in the face of growing local opposition. Says one Army general: "What Dulles was in civilian clothes to the Far East, Lemnitzer was in a uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: General Lem | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Further support for uniform menus was expresed recently by Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, and the official in charge of the final decision...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Tucker Delays Decision On Uniform Menus Plan | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

While several Masters have suggested that valuable initiative inspired by separate menus would disappear under the proposed system, Tucker maintained that "the managers of the separate kitchens would have the same standards of initiative" with uniform menus "since they will still have to produce good quality food...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Tucker Delays Decision On Uniform Menus Plan | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

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