Word: swiftness
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What has happened to Castro is disappointment, disillusion and decay. After nearly seven years of power, the grandiose dreams are ended. Gone is the hope of a swift socialist transformation to make agricultural Cuba a Caribbean industrial colossus; the Cuban economy is in tatters, back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer. Gone is the vision of leading a vast Latin American popular revolution; that revolution is being ably led by the democratic left of Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great...
...came here because, when the school doors closed at three o'clock, I did not enjoy turning my back upon the neighborhood in which my students lived--and finding, by a swift express route back across the Charles River, an escape from and an evasion of everything they hated, feared and loved...
...eight Ivy football teams venture into the Real World this afternoon, and the improved caliber of the League should be amply demonstrated by their performances. After picking the White Sox in the American League, Princeton in the NCAA's, and Swift Ruler in the Kentucky Derby during the last year, we shall strive for self-redemption here...
...Middle East has seen just about every sort of coup, from ordinary coups d'état to incredibly swift coups de Jarnac.* But last week Iraq's Premier Aref Abdel Razzak made coup history by trying to overthrow his own government...
...later, they reconvened and kept at it until 1 the following morning, when a haggard, pallid Kheel announced: "With the benefit of sleep and reflection, we will be able to move forward." His optimism was well meant, but Kheel and company are concerned with an issue that promises no swift solution...