Word: cuban-american
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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...
...months since Castro announced that any Cubans who wanted to could leave his little paradise lost, some 47,000 have flown to freedom on the twice-daily Havana-to-Miami shuttle. But when it came to some 900 persons holding dual Cuban-American citizenship, Castro kept stalling. He seemed to delight in preventing the State Department from helping people who were, at least nominally, U.S. citizens...
...corn, has simplified its name to Girard Trust Co. Many boards of directors are persuaded to drop regional or national names as their firms' international business increases; the Texas Co. adopted the name of the gas it markets, becoming just plain Texaco, and no one can blame the Cuban-American Sugar Co. for making a post-Castro change in its name to North American Sugar Industries...
Ybor City is old Cubatown in Tampa, Fla., where Cuban cigarmakers and their families have lived for generations. In this first novel, Florida-born Jose Yglesias, 43, paints a low-key Street Scene that is more fit for play-acting than reading, but his descriptions of Cuban-American family life in 1958 contain much that is touching...
...saying that the rupturing of diplomatic relations was "unforgivable," which is true, but the context of the reasoning which led me to that admittedly harsh judgement was left out or distorted. What I said was something to this effect: Given the background of provocation and retaliation that has characterised Cuban-American relations, the best one could expect from the new administration, prior to the breaking off of relations, was an unsensational, quiet policy of stopping further deterioration of relations as a preliminary to making a new attempt to discover some ground for accommodation. What the Eisenhower decision...