Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl, Lynn Kauffman, 23, was a divorcee; she was vivacious, smart, well educated. The affair blossomed in the 44-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. On the 45th day, when Utrecht left Boston for New York, the shipboard romance was dead-and so was Lynn Kauffman, whose half-nude body, brutally beaten, was found awash on Spectacle Island in Boston Bay. Last week police arrested Radio Officer Van Rie on a charge of murder...
Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...
Avance and Diario had committed the error of strong but well-reasoned arguments against a new Castro decree boosting import duties to 100% in some cases; the effect, noted the papers, may well be to reduce Cuba to the levels of undeveloped Asian and African nations...
Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
Only a few years ago, such honor and position would have been unthinkable for a Mexican woman. Until well into the 20th century, a woman's place was in the home-except during wartime, when she was expected to fight like a man. She could not get a passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected...