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...refugees from Communist Cuba last week marked its first anniversary. In that period, more than 45,000 Cubans have been flown free to new lives in the U.S. Though the number who would seek to leave Cuba was originally estimated at 150,000, another 700,000 Cubans still await Fidel Castro's action on their applications to leave. Despite confiscation of most of their property as a precondition to leaving, only 5% of the first year's refugees required U.S. welfare assistance-and then only for short periods...
...ready to fuel a fire that has been cold for nearly 20 centuries. On the wall of a snack bar, some graffito artist has daubed a phallus and the words MA(N)SVETA TENE (Handle with Care). In a cereal and wine shop, jars brimful of beans and, chickpeas await the next customer. At a street crossing, the inscription on a pillar warns litterbugs that they can be jailed or fined...
Andy Warhol's soup cans, Brillo boxes, films, wallpaper, and his floating helium Clouds await Boston gallery-goers at the Institute of Contemporary Art through Sunday. November 6. The Institute, at 100 Newbury St. in Boston, is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11-6 and Wednesday evenings until...
...plan to create a committee will probably have to await the results of next week's student poll on the draft and the Selective Service System. The referendum, sponsored by the HUC, will concentrate on questions about the use of rank-in-class for determining whether or not a student should be deferred...
...sits down to await instruction. After a few minutes the section leader gives a brief outline of the course, says when the first paper is due and falls silent. Five, sometimes even ten minutes, pass before the silence is broken. Finally, some brave soul takes the first step toward forming the norms for the group's behavior: "My name is Tom." The machinery of anxiety has launched the group into a series of tense analytic and soul-searching sessions which will leave them unsatisfied, but feeling that they have learned an enormous amount about themselves and interpersonal dynamics...