Word: copa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly looked the part, with his long brown Prince Valiant locks, rosebud lips and gray-green almond-shaped eyes. He had also had all the prescribed early breaks. He had been "discovered" on the Tonight Show four times, sung with Don Rickles in Reno and Vegas, played the Copa, Jimmy's and the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, signed a $7,500 contract with Epic Records and toured the top spas on the Borscht Belt...
...news that we've got is very sparse and we haven't heard anything officially yet, just what we've read in the newspapers," Maurino Costa, another active member of COPA, said yesterday, "so I don't think COPA can say anything...
...Since in my country, nobody has the right to do or say anything, we are afraid of becoming involved with politics," Maurino Costa says. "Organizations like COPA and SPAL [Somerville Portuguese American League] must get the Portuguese together. They must explain what rights the Portuguese have and what they can do if they work together...
Leaders at COPA have made some progress combating the political apathy that Portuguese oppression has stamped in the Portuguese people, but COPA is aware that it is up against too big a psychological obstacle to expect immediate success...
Leading the Portuguese out of their political indifference is an arduous and frustrating task. COPA has made a beginning, as have regional conferences such as the Congress of the Portuguese in America held at Harvard last year under COPA's sponsorship...