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...believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959, and worked for almost anyone who would hire him. In 1976 Barrera developed Bold Forbes, a sprinter notoriously weak at long distances, into the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont. He was the leading trainer in both 1976 and 1977. Last year his horses earned $2.7 mil lion, and this year...
...Buffett had stayed country, maybe, just maybe, he might have kept his edge, the edge that cropped up less and less in the later albums: The Muzak of Havana Daydreaming, for instance, also had "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus." Whatever whammy Buffett still has doesn't come out in the songs he writes nowadays, only in his concerts, because there, his barband background can't help but stomp. Buffett's genial Musak musings are a lot easier to take, too, when he serves them up-tempo...
...cost of heavily overstaffing every office and factory with workers who seldom can be fired for failing to produce. Bureaucratic controls further cripple efficiency, and managers have little leeway for innovation. Consumer goods are still shoddy and chronically scarce. Long lines form immediately in Warsaw, Prague, Havana, Moscow and other Communist cities at rumors that a shop is about to receive a shipment of such coveted goods as shoes, fresh fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens are immune to inflation; but, in fact, continual price hikes are merely artfully concealed by an economy in which wages, prices...
Epstein claims that Oswald's pro-Cuba activities in the U.S. were designed to convince Havana officials that he was trustworthy enough to be admitted to Cuba in another planned defection from the U.S. The book traces Oswald's movements in Mexico City, and includes U.S.-monitored telephone conversations to the Soviet and Cuban embassies. Oswald's last known call in Mexico City was to make an appointment to see a Soviet official, described in the book as a member of the KGB department in charge of foreign espionage and assassinations. Oswald then returned to Dallas...
...Grow old along with me!" said Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just...