Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Boorstein, former official in the revolutionary Cuban government will speak. Sherman Union...
More than most states, Florida embraces the best and worst of America. The losers of life still flock to Daytona Beach to drive cabs and lick their wounds in the sun; the winners arrive at Palm Beach in private yachts and jets to relieve the pressures. Cuban refugees come to Miami to make a new beginning, while a million blacks chafe at the newcomers' ability to take away their jobs by working for less pay. Retired citizens in Hawaiian shirts fill the benches at Sarasota, while migrant workers pass silently through the state in their circuitous search for work...
What is all but incredible about this dizzying slapstick is not that the author has the worst case of the Marx blathers on record, but that he is a Cuban, and wrote it all first in Spanish. His novel, a brilliantly loony memoir of life in Havana just before Castro's takeover, was called Tres Tristes Tigres (Three Sad Tigers) in the original. When Cabrera Infante and a couple of steady-nerved friends did the English transmogrification of TTT, the tongue twisting of the title seemed more important than its negligible sense, and so the tigers were trapped...
...Cuban naval offensive has been directed at solely Babun-owned ships. But Radio Havana warned that Cuban gunboats would have no compunction whatsoever about seizing any vessel "under any flag or camouflage" that they believed had been engaged in "counterrevolutionary activities...
...Rapidez, one of the most sought-after trainers in Latin America, knows all about thoroughbreds. Born Alfredo Cruz in Matanzas, Cuba, he quit school in the third grade and at age 13 went to Havana, where his quick hands won him the name Kid Rapidez and the Cuban flyweight title. After losing only eight of nearly 200 fights, the Kid retired and became a trainer at Havana's National Academy of Boxing. There he groomed such classy fighters as former Welterweight Champions Luis Rodriguez and the late Benny ("Kid") Paret. When Fidel Castro banned professional sports in Cuba, Rapidez...