Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after re-election over a weak opponent, Rockefeller seemed to have a lock on the upcoming presidential nomination of his party for president. In preparation, he sought to refurbish his image a conservative, accusing President Kennedy of appeasing the Russians by not allowing Cuban exiles to stage raids against Castro. The polls showed Rockefeller the favorite among Republicans over Goldwater by a margin of 43 to 26 per cent. Only an act of incredible naivete could stop him. Rockefeller provided it by marrying Happy Murphy, fast upon the heels of his divorce from Mary Todhunter Clark. Virtually overnight his lead...
...Tuxedo Ballroom (Third Ave. and 17th St.; $6 cover on weekends). At Barney Googles (225 E. 86th St.; $4 cover on weekend nights and free admission for women before 10 p.m.) you can hear both disco and highly spiced Latin music, called salsa. This blistering rhythm, Afro-Cuban in origin, is served up hottest at the Corso (205 E. 86th St.), where the dance floor gives you the chance for the sort of workout that could lead to an Olympic qualification...
...been at it again. Last month in Rolling Stone, he gave "an endorsement, with fear and loathing," to Jimmy Carter. The article takes a long time to get under way, for as he writes, his radio is describing a Cuban sought for wantonly castrating dogs in Coconut Grove, Fla. ("This is, after all, another election year, and almost everyone I talk to seems to feel we are headed for strangeness of one sort or another.") Thompson is at first judicious about this strangeness ("The evidence points both ways"), but not for long: "Jesus Christ! I'm not sure...
...large, the Cuban refugees have worked diligently, helped one another, and achieved a booming economic success in the center of Miami. They now own or control an estimated 8,000 businesses and have a spending power of $1.5 billion. Many of them have been unable to re-create their old lives, however. Alfredo Perez, for example, went to law school in Havana, but after fleeing to Colombia, then to Puerto Rico, he arrived penniless and discouraged in Miami in 1967. The need for Cuban-trained lawyers in Miami being totally nonexistent, Perez finally got a job mowing lawns...
...soldiers and a representative of OMA, the national women's organization. The mercenaries followed the questioning intently on headsets for simultaneous translation into five languages−English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. There was a point to having the proceedings delivered in the two latter languages: Russian and Cuban advisers to the Angolan government were conspicuously present in the courtroom...