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...cavernous Currigan Hall, firecrackers exploded and blue and white balloons spelled out the winning name: PEÑA. Outside, young people cruised in cars down Denver's historic Larimer Street, chanting "Chicano power!" Echoing his campaign slogan, Federico Peña told the packed hall of supporters last week, "Let us create a great American city...
...Santiago will soon have the $100,000 proceeds from selling his house back in the town of General Trias. A good many of the Filipinos are medical professionals, drawn by U.S. salaries and by the provision of the 1965 immigration law that gives preference to the highly skilled. Dr. Federico Quevedo, founder of L.A.'s Confederation of Philippine-United States Organizations, is an obstetrician. Ophthalmologist Lani Quevedo, his wife, is the daughter of a doctor and a pharmacist. "The new immigration laws," explains Federico Quevedo, "take connections and credentials and money...
...faint?" he genially asked a cadre of pestering reporters as he puffed on his cigar. So "Mayor Bill," 73, bowed out after finishing a stinging third in a field of seven in last Tuesday's election. Slogging through a freak spring blizzard, voters favored former State Legislator Federico Pefia and former District Attorney Dale Tooley, who will meet in a runoff on June...
...viewers not addicted to the networks. TEC had a ten-year contract with the BBC for first rights in the U.S., and nearly 40% of its fare was composed of such British shows as the political spoof Yes, Minister and the detective series Shoestring. Besides showing distinctive foreign films (Federico Fellini's City of Women, Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife), TEC had exclusive rights to such Broadway shows as Pippin and Sweeney Todd...
...makers were finding it harder to attract attention, especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken. But there is still cinematic ingenuity to be found outside the U.S., and sometimes even in U.S. movie theaters...