Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucia, a recent full-length Cuban political film, Friday and Saturday...
Stone speaks Spanish in Miami's Cuban community, plays the harmonica for the country boys, and even broke an arm leaping over a tennis net for a photographer. Both candidates are conservative. Eckerd wants to cut spending; Stone wants "Uncle Sucker" to stop the foreign aid giveaways. A tossup...
...Cuba's middle class was transplanted largely intact to Miami, so were the island's language and culture. Today the city has four radio stations and a television station that broadcast in Spanish, as well as a score of Spanish-language newspapers and magazines. Well-to-do Cubans gather daily at the Big Five Club (initiation fee per family: $2,000), a country club made up of members of five of pre-Castro Havana's most prestigious clubs. Bowntown at the American Club, members of the Cuban-American business establishment meet for lunch and a friendly game...
...Sets of Values. At least 50,000 of Bade County's Cuban-Americans were born in the U.S., and are proving remarkably adept at absorbing American culture. Teen-agers in La Saguesera may delight in the café con leche and mediasnoches (Cuban sandwiches) of the garish, mirrored Versailles coffeehouse, but they are equally at home in more anglo surroundings; fútbol (soccer) is popular, but so are béisbol and fútbol americano. "Being a Cuban-American is having two sets of values," explains Raimundo Sacre, 16, who was brought...
...contest between two Cuban-American candidates for the Republican nomination to a congressional seat last week provided an apt reflection of the prevailing spirit of La Saguesera's people. Miguel Carricarte charged that his rival, Evelio Estrella, could not speak English very well; Estrella charged om turn that Carricarte's Spanish was pretty feeble. Carricarte won easily. He is not expected to defeat veteran Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper in November's general election, but by 1976 or 1978, as increasing numbers of Sagueseranos become eligible to vote, it may be a different story...