Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hard to Turn Back. Events that Castro himself set in motion were moving too fast for any sudden slowdown. At Cape Canaveral, Fla. a U.S. range safety officer made a lightning decision, pressed the destruction button on a malfunctioning satellite rocket, and fragments weighing up to 40 Ibs. showered down...
A couple of hundred miles away in the Sierra Escambray, Dr. Manuel Fajardo, 29, Castro's close friend and personal physician, who was also commander of the local militia, intercepted two boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead...
While Havana undergoes its trial by bomb, another city, 200 miles across the Florida Straits, has become a Cuban refugee camp. By fishing boat and by yacht, by commercial airliner or hijacked plane, an estimated 500 Cubans each day are now fleeing Castro's Cuba, and most of them...
The politically reliable young men can sometimes sign up with a resistance group, or go off to a crude camp in the boondocks, where they learn guerrilla warfare. Only two of the 50 or so exile groups in Miami have much organization. The Democratic Revolutionary Front, a five-group coalition...
Living on Pennies. Most of the exiles are middle-class people uprooted from home and job and just barely scraping by. Arriving in Miami with the single $5 bill allowed them by Castro, they jam into households that already crowd 12 to 18 people into a single house, spend their...