Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.; 7-7:30 p.m. in New York). "The Freedom Shuttle: Dilemma in Miami," a study of the problems created by the influx of Cuban refugees...
...Throughs Y. Breakthroughs. Rumors flew wildly. On the beleaguered 4:55 to Croton-on-Hudson, a New York Central conductor cried: "Some Commie's pulled the switch from here to Canada!" Sabotage was on many minds. "You can't blame me." a Cuban U.N. official assured a U.S. delegate when the lights blew. "I was right here all the time." Some New Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. Many clung stubbornly to the belief that it was all a Government-ordered test...
...LYNDON JOHNSON. "As a continuing example of your defense policies, who in the years to come will be guarding our eastern coast against Russian submarines?" "Thirty-five [pause] Cuban fishermen." "Would you say that Hubert Humphrey has been a good Vice President?" "Yesterday was quite encouraging." "Could you tell us what Humphrey's middle name is?" "Prudence...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor (who opposed the stockpile dumping as unworkable, confined his own action to a speech defending the Administration after the price hike had been rescinded). McNamara used roughly the same technique that the U.S. had used on the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis: turn the screw only half a notch at a time, then release it to enable the foe to back off. Turning the screw again, McNamara let word be issued that the Government would now dump 300,000 tons of aluminum, an amount that the industry feared would rock...
...Treasury authorities say innocently that Le Nickel can indeed sell products to the U.S.-if it can prove that they contain no Cuban nickel. Actually, there is no scientific way of either proving or disproving where the nickel content of a finished product comes from-a fact that enables the French to claim everything without being able to prove anything conclusively. At week's end, U.S. customs officials released one of the impounded shipments because it was destined for a defense plant, but the customs inspectors have orders to be hard-nosed about stopping French imports containing nickel. France...