Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caribbean's U.S. and British islands, which are both politically and isothermally hospitable, the winter tourist season was at its peak last week, and the peak had never been so high. "Don't even mention Caribbean to me," complained the New York manager of Happiness Tours. "Montego Bay, San Juan, Kingston. St. Thomas-all hopelessly jammed through April...
...program are the big concerted numbers, where brilliant lighting and costumes combine with the drumming and dancing to produce dazzling splashes of color. The other sections naturally act as relief; these generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...
...weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when Batista arrived...
Trujillo has 38 Vampire jet fighters; the Canadian government last week refused to allow a U.S. dealer to ship twelve more to him. But in Cuba, Castro proved that tactical air superiority is pointless over heavy forests in a Caribbean filibuster. Far more valuable to Trujillo are 1) his efficient small-arms plant in his native city of San Cristobal, and 2) the Rio agreement of 1947, which obliges the U.S. and its hemispheric neighbors to halt any invasion fleet bent on disturbing the peace...
Pompous, martial and arrogant as President, Rojas in the prisoner's dock was gaunt and meek. Gone was the suntan he got last month from a gunboat Caribbean cruise that the government gave him after he foolishly tried a coup. Once when the presiding officer demanded that the former strongman rise when spoken to, he protested that he deserved "reverence" as an ex-President. Afterward he was humble. Respectfully, he addressed his accusers as "Honorable Senators"; the senators referred to him simply as "the accused...