Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Arthur Goldberg, 52. Goldberg is skilled at the Cuban dice game of carabino, a collector, in a modest way, of the works of Picasso, Matisse and Shahn, a gluttonous reader of books of all kinds, and a loyal fan of the Washington Redskins. He is also the leading labor lawyer in the U.S., a man who has had a major voice in every significant labor-management decision of the past decade, but who has never been a legitimate member of a labor union. As Secretary of Labor, he may have to make some difficult decisions, such as enforcing Taft-Hartley...
...Cuban Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara; discussing the U.S. embargo of Cuba...
...afternoon the labor movement, taken over by Castro stooges and turned into a Castro company union, burst out in a stunning outcry that recalled the mood of the June 1953 riots in East Berlin. Summoned by Castro's Confederation of Cuban Workers to repudiate their secretary-general, anti-Communist Amaury Fraginals, 1,000 members of the Electrical Workers Union instead hoisted Fraginals on their shoulders and marched on the presidential palace shouting "Elections-down with Communism-out with fellow travelers." President Osvaldo Dorticos offered to talk to Fraginals if the demonstrators dispersed, and Fraginals told his men to hold...
...giant, $20 million expropriated Shell Oil refinery. The worried regime narrowed its circle and last week more men were forced into jail, exile or ignominy. Among them: Major Humberto Sori Marin, Castro's first Agriculture Minister and chief justice of the war crimes trials-under house arrest; three Cuban diplomats in the U.S., including the alternate delegate to the Economic & Social Council of the Organization of American States-dismissed; Gustavo Hart, brother of Education Minister Armando Hart-defected to Venezuela...
...report hit like a fist and left some haunting images in the viewers' minds: the despair of an out-of-work electrician's helper in a dirt-floored hut in Caracas; the satisfaction of a fisherman whose family has a fine new cottage in a Cuban cooperative-and the naively shrewd question of an old crone about how the family's wretched old furniture would look in the new house...