Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sander Vanocur is anchorman for NBC News's monthly TV Magazine. In the first issue: a report on Fidel Castro's attempts to export Cuban Communism to the rest of Latin America; a look at Hollywood Love Goddess Rita Hayworth at 50; a visit with Body-Building Expert Charles Atlas; a tour of the Sinai peninsula; and "Baton Twirlers," a feature that looks at the thousands of girls-and a few boys-who zealously practice baton twirling in the nation today...
...Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley's Na tional Review. Was Bobby too hostile to the automobile industry? A Pontiac, Mich., publisher is the judge. Was the Cuban missile crisis a defeat for the Kennedys? Nikita Khrushchev says so. Any source dissatisfied with Kennedy is accepted without evaluation...
...enjoy your stay. Most layovers last overnight, because Cuban authorities will not permit U.S. jets to take off with passengers from Jose Marti Airport, and it takes time for the airline involved to ferry over a substitute prop plane. Passengers meanwhile are billeted either at Jose Marti Airport or at one of two good hotels: the downtown Havana Libre (formerly the Havana Hilton), or the Varadero International, located 35 minutes out of town but convenient to Varadero Airport, from which your prop plane will depart. Depending on your accommodations, here is what to expect...
...Jose Marti Airport: You will be allowed to circulate freely and make purchases at the airport shops. Havana cigars (250 up) and Cuban rum ($1 per fifth) are the best buys. Neither can legally be imported into the U.S., but passengers on Eastern Flight 73 freely carried both through customs when they returned to Miami. There will be little opportunity for sightseeing, except during the trip to the airport on buses provided by the Swiss embassy...
...Varadero International: Bring a bathing suit, because Varadero Beach, a 15-mile-long ribbon of white sand, is magnificent. Passengers on Eastern Flight 73 were berthed here. They were allowed to go swimming. They were also fed a free meal (appetizer, roast beef, rice, salad, dessert) while two Cuban bands played bossa nova and blues in the background...