Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait in line like everybody else, and we get rained on like everybody else," explained Cuban-born Jorge Guillermo, the assistant director of a day-care center in Manhattan. Still, when Guillermo, 29, and his fiancée, 28, a French and music teacher in New York City, travel to The Hague to be married this summer, the ceremonies will be more than a city hall affair. The bride: Princess Christina, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Christina, partially blind since birth, and her husband will begin married life in New York with a royal...
Engaged. Princess Maria Christina, 27, fourth and youngest daughter of The Netherlands' Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard and ninth in line to the Dutch throne; and Jorge Guillermo, 28, a Cuban refugee and a teacher of preschool youngsters in Harlem. Classical music buffs who met in 1973, the couple, after a June wedding in The Netherlands, will live in New York City, where Christina teaches French and music at a Montessori school...
...nous-le-deluge decade-long gangbang of imperialism provides the backdrop to the one point in his career where Michael seems on the verge of respectability. In partnership with Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), he is about to transfer a large part of his wealth into more-or-less legitimate Cuban hotels and casinos. Along with executives of companies like United Fruit and "U.T.T." he goes to Havana to be honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird, near-surrealist climax...
...where he got an A.B. in mathematics, did more than a year's apprenticeship at the Examiner. Then, at Randolph's urging, he was soon busy installing his friends on the paper, including Bob Hayes as black minority adviser and sportswriter; Raul Ramirez, a 28-year-old Cuban journalist from the Washington Post, as an investigative reporter; and Reporter Larry Kramer, an abrasive 24-year-old Harvard M.B.A. (who in 1974 wrote his master's thesis on the Hearst Corp.), as assistant to the executive editor, to churn out ideas...
...Pigs, the Intelligence Directorate was excluded from the operation. If it had not been, the planners and President Kennedy might have been disabused of the fatal illusion that the exile landing would provoke a popular Cuban uprising...