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Yglesias' family is almost Dostoevskian in size and complexity. Its three generations stem from three aged sisters-Dolores, Clemencia and Mina. Among the younger men, Armando is a sex-starved punk who works for the local numbers racketeer; Esteban runs guns to a revolutionist named Castro; Robert fiddles on the periphery of the left wing but lacks the will to fish or cut bait. A domineering, money-mad daughter, Elena, is married to a Batista speechwriter who regularly hauls huge bundles of cash from Havana to a Miami bank and is contemptuous of all the pin-poor folk...
Boccaccio '70 (RCA Victor). The sinewy music written by Composers Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli for the celebrated Italian peep show. In its several parts it manages to combine French swagger with Latin languor-an accomplishment that puts it several notches ahead of mail-order Hollywood prescriptions...
Later, with Wally Whitney in the nets for the Crimson, Young fired a low, hard liner toward the goal. Whitney stopped the ball, but Bruin center forward Armando Garces smashed it past him before he could fall on it. Thus Brown led, 5 to 0, after 20:45 of the third period, and the rest of the game was laughable...
...missionary," he says. "I just put an atlas in front of me and I spotted Alaska. A kid feels very holy. I thought, 'Christ died for me on the Cross, so I'll die for him in the snow.'" (Segundo's brother Armando, also a Jesuit missionary, is serving in the sun as a student adviser in Castro's Havana University...
...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...