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...members of the Cuban-American business establishment meet for lunch and a friendly game of cubilete (dice). A once famous Havana restaurant, Centre Vasco, has been resurrected on Miami's Southwest Eighth Street; its walls are adorned with jai alai baskets and its tables laden with steaming arroz con pollo and chilled sangria. The streets of La Saguesera bustle with fruit and vegetable stands, stores displaying religious artifacts, and cafes that serve jet-black Cuban coffee; at dusk the air is filled with the nostalgic beat of Latin music and the aroma of sofrita, the distinctive Cuban seasoning. Even...
...year veteran of the Physics Department, Strauch nonetheless says that he believes the main reason Bok and Horner selected him was because they were convinced he did not know anything about the complexities of Harvard and Radcliffe admissions and the pro and con arguments of the various alternatives the committee is exploring...
...Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head of Gospel Films Inc. of Muskegon, Mich., and peripatetic chaplain to a number of professional sports teams. Another, probably even stronger evangelical influence is Ford's eldest son Michael, who is currently studying for a divinity degree at staunchly conservative Gordon-Con well Theological Seminary in Massachusetts...
...controversial moves has been to relax Boys Town's almost monastic regime. He has ended the censorship of mail, tolerated longer hair, and even endorsed dating. "My first impression upon coming to Boys Town was that this place was a minimum-security prison," said Mike Casey, the ex-con...
Although Erdman does not neglect characterization and the mechanics of storytelling, he is more intent on delivering cold truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about...