Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...roll call of the nation's great cities is changing dramatically, 1960 census figures proved last week. Such aging centers as New York, Chicago and Detroit are fighting to keep their rank while losing thousands to the green suburbs. Some venerable metropolises-Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland and San Francisco-are slipping in rank and population, while such fresh new giants as Houston, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Tampa are rising fast in the West and South. Rank of the nation's 50 largest cities...
Hear me well, I said Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out." He singled out land reform: "No government can call itself revolutionary if it does not carry out a profound agrarian reform. The peasant cannot be given only marginal lands. He must have the productive lands held by private interests who stole them from the peasants ages...
When the U.S. angrily reacted by virtually cutting off 1960 Cuban-sugar imports, Che got a Russian dividend-a threat by Premier Khrushchev to fire rockets at the U.S. if it intervened in Cuba. The gesture moved Che to call Cuba "a glorious island in the middle of the Caribbean, defended by the rockets of the greatest military power in history." Where tanning U.S. tourists and businessmen once sipped daiquiris on the brink of clear blue hotel pools, broad-cheeked Russian and impassive Red Chinese technicians now take their ease...
...because the new U.S. aid program coincided so transparently with the U.S. need to counter Cuba's and-Yankee campaign, Latin American skeptics call it "the Castro plan." Ike recently sent a personal note to Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek concerning the September meeting in Bogota of the "Committee of 21," a committee dreamed up by Kubitschek to guide the hemisphere's economic growth and win U.S. aid. Kubitschek thought the letter would amplify Ike's promise of U.S. loans for social ends, such as housing and land reform. Instead, Eisenhower merely hoped in general for "concrete results...
...Call for Humaniam...