Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Juan was in Miami, where he and his parents had gone in 1953 to escape conditions under Batista. While he was gaining an amazing repertoire of mid- and late-fifties rock-and-roll songs, his parents were raising money for Fidel's 26th of July Movement...
...wound up a successful engagement at the Waldorf's Empire Room, a knockout, nonstop show that had everybody-including Liza-gasping for breath. She opens at Puerto Rico's El San Juan Hotel this week. She has just been nominated for an Academy Award for her first starring role in The Sterile Cuckoo. She will soon be seen in the title role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, in which she has to be convincing as a facially scarred girl in love. And in the talk stages, a Liza Minnelli...
...Yale lab technician, Juan Roman, was less fortunate. He had not worked directly with the Lassa serums or infected mice, so when he visited relatives in York, Pa., over Thanksgiving and fell ill, no one suspected the mystery virus. Roman died. Later, when his serum revealed that he had somehow been infected with the dread fever...
...Pepe" Figueres-sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...
...once remarked. "It is something you have to work hard at." And work she did, from 1931 to 1969 as writer and poetry critic for The New Yorker, and as the author of six volumes of verse. A consummate lyricist, she wrote with forceful emotion and maturity, as in "Juan's Song...