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...rose from the table, glutted on oreos and orange juice a middle-aged woman bade me good...
...OPENING session of the Second Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, held at Radcliffe last October. President Mary Maples Dunn paid tribute to the recently deceased historian Alma Lutz, and in the next breath bade her farewell, thereby welcoming the "new women's history...
Transplanted Intact. But more and more, the Cuban exiles-particularly the 400,000 who live in Miami and surrounding Bade County-are coming to terms with the fact that the U.S. has become their permanent home. "The Cuba most of us would like to return to no longer exists," observes one Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign...
Today approximately one-third of Bade County's 1.4 million people are Cubans. They live in widely scattered neighborhoods, including some of the city's finest, but they are centered in Miami's southwest quadrant in a section known as Little Havana or La Saguesera (a Spanish-English corruption of "southwest"). Throughout the county, the Cubans own some 8,000 businesses, including banks and construction firms, newspapers and shoe factories. Five Bade County banks have Cuban presidents. Nearly one-quarter of the county's Cuban families make more than $15,000 annually, and 40% earn more...
...Sets of Values. At least 50,000 of Bade County's Cuban-Americans were born in the U.S., and are proving remarkably adept at absorbing American culture. Teen-agers in La Saguesera may delight in the café con leche and mediasnoches (Cuban sandwiches) of the garish, mirrored Versailles coffeehouse, but they are equally at home in more anglo surroundings; fútbol (soccer) is popular, but so are béisbol and fútbol americano. "Being a Cuban-American is having two sets of values," explains Raimundo Sacre, 16, who was brought...