Word: alfredo
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...refugees have worked diligently, helped one another, and achieved a booming economic success in the center of Miami. They now own or control an estimated 8,000 businesses and have a spending power of $1.5 billion. Many of them have been unable to re-create their old lives, however. Alfredo Perez, for example, went to law school in Havana, but after fleeing to Colombia, then to Puerto Rico, he arrived penniless and discouraged in Miami in 1967. The need for Cuban-trained lawyers in Miami being totally nonexistent, Perez finally got a job mowing lawns. He is the kind...
...Alfredo Vanegas Montoya
...Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...
...Alfredo, Tenor Stuart Burrows sang with taste and grace, but he lacks the sharp vocal and theatrical edge required by the role. Sills started off with a surprisingly wide vibrato that spoiled some of her high notes. But the problem cleared up, and the confrontation with Germont-splendidly sung by Baritone William Walker-was in ev ery way convincing. Looking slim and sexy, Sills throughout the evening exhibited an appealing range of emotions and musicality. From the glossy extravagances of the opening party scene to the despair of her pact with Germont, Sills once again asserted her claim...
...passage of power was signaled two weeks ago by the departure of Economy Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales, who alienated workers by refusing to go along with union demands for wage increases, amounting in some cases to 150%. Seeing an opportunity to gain influence in another key ministry, López Rega apparently prevailed upon Mrs. Perón to accept Gómez Morales' resignation. His replacement was a little-known industrial engineer, Celestino Rodrigo, 60, who had previously served as Secretary in López Rega's Social Welfare Ministry...