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...somehow look blacker and heroines fairer under that Caribbean sun. In 1897, on the eve of the U.S. intervention to free Cuba from Spain, the fairest of all heroines to North Americans was a rebel named Evangelina Cisneros-"this tenderly nurtured girl," the New York Journal mourned, "imprisoned at eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Horse Lost the Way | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...Eighteen years ago a nine-year-old boy drowned in the pond and local residents circulated a petition asking Harvard University, owner of the property, to fill in the 30' by 50' pond. Although neighbors say that over 300 people signed the petition and turned it over to the University, no action was ever taken...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Two Drown in Harvard's 'Muddy Pond' | 5/18/1971 | See Source »

...semicylindrical structure, which covers five acres and daily devours some 70,000 gallons of desalinated sea water, went into full production last week. Eighteen varieties of fruit and vegetable were planted, including cabbages, watermelons, turnips, lettuce, tomatoes and squash.Sheik Zaid confident that there will soon be enough home-grown produce to satisfy his domestic market, can now entertain the notion of exporting fresh Abu Dhabian vegetables to his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 17, 1971 | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

There is a fine photograph taken in the last half of the nineteenth century. Eighteen hundreds-for those of us without good historical understanding they can at least be approached in crude chronology. Between the war for independence (revolutionary) and the freeing of the slaves, there was another large war, of opposing directions and, at an off-Broadway production of Our American Cousin, the sudden death of our president, a good man. References to this century have priorities in the immediate moment, and beyond the eighteenth century the understanding are truly historical-the chosen preservations that have influenced...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...financial burden was too great to risk, or Dick Jones didn't want to bother doing all the work necessary for a double album. Or perhaps there is some reason I am missing. In any event Follies is available on a single record (Capitol SO 761) and of the eighteen songs which were recorded (four have been cut) Capital admits in fine print to having "abridged" seven of them. I guess this means that all of the lyrics are not sung, because the album has musically abridged at least twelve of the numbers. Some have survived rather well, others...

Author: By John Viertel, | Title: Music Capitol's 'Follies' | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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