Word: jaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restaurants, casinos and nightclubs are empty, except for pistol-packing bigwigs, and only a few of them. The Hotel Jaragua is almost deserted, and the 310-room Embajador, which cost $6,000,000 or so, had about 20 guests. I'm convinced that the slot machines and games are fixed in favor of the tourists, in hopes that someone will spread the good word back home. At least, I could not lose for winning on the slots, and I watched a blackjack dealer accomplish a nearly impossible feat: he went over 21 on three of five hands, thus keeping...
Living with a son and a cluster of bodyguards in the Jaragua Hotel, Batista and his crew present a picture of wariness. One day last week the trigger-cock sound of a purse snapping shut in the hotel lobby made a group of his fellow Cuban exiles swivel around. Batista himself refuses to stand before an open window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last...