Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feeney has deserted the little red house on 12 Bow Street to go on to bigger and better things. Fortunately for the citizens of Cambridge, the 200-year-old house has not been left unoccupied. It is now the proud possession of Josefina Yanguas who owns and runs the Cafe Pamplona...
Born in Pamplona, Miss Yanguas missed the coffee houses of her native city. She felt that Cambridge lacked a place where people could meet and talk in a quiet, pleasant atmosphere. So when she opened the Cafe Pamplona last May, she tried to keep it in this European tradition. As a result, the Cafe Pamplona is unique among the Cambridge Coffee Houses...
...Back home," says Cafe Filho, "I got fine offers from companies seeking congressional favors or government contracts. I did not think it was right to accept...
...monthly salary of $700, but much of it went to treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
...ambassadorship, but, crippled and still ill, he "did not think that was right, either." In 1957, when he could work again, he took his present job as president of a small real-estate firm. Current salary: $180 a month. Scrimping, saving, and struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President. "I'm not disappointed...