Word: leon
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Among the area's financial executives is Yvonne Santa Maria, who fled Cuba in 1963 aboard a Red Cross flight and now is president of Ponce de Leon Federal Savings and Loan in Coral Gables (1984 assets: $27.8 million). Santa Maria, who left behind a small family fortune in Havana real estate, attended night school and job-hopped among several banks before being asked by a friend in 1980 to help launch Ponce de Leon. Says she: "I am extremely, I mean to the utmost, thankful to the United States...
...Jackie Gutierrez, 8, of the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico, bilingual learning has meant sitting in a twice-a-week class listening and responding to Leon Baca, a teacher of the ancient Tewa language. During a recent session, Baca grunted, "Nyaemangeri!" The students replied, "Left side!" "Haa (yes)," intoned Baca; then "Ko'ringeri!" The children shouted, "Right side!" Asked later what the enrichment class was all about, Jackie replied, "We're learning to speak Indian...
...Florida, Flo-rree-da," says Heberto Padilla, pronouncing the familiar word with a flourish, as if it were a lover's name. "Ponce de Leon christened it, and in Coral Gables the streets have Spanish names. So we deserve the place. Whenever we had trouble in Havana, we went to Miami, and Miami is very, very important for us. We don't feel like immigrants." Padilla certainly does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida...
...Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. For three elderly gents in a St. Petersburg retirement home, the situation is happily, treacherously reversed: without looking for it, they find the Swimming Pool of Youth in a mansion next door. The place has been rented out to a quartet of folks with the musk of mystery about them. They are, of course, from outer space -- Antarea, to be exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast...
...ruling by the Strasbourg-based court is not legally enforceable, but British Home Secretary Leon Brittan promised that the immigration law would be changed. The government had argued that the law was useful in controlling the influx of immigrant workers during a period of high domestic unemployment. The court's finding could affect as many as 2,000 couples a year. The women who brought the suit are Arcely Cabales from the Philippines, Sohair Balkandali from Egypt and Nargis Abdulaziz from Malawi. Ironically, they will not be affected: in the four years since their legal action got under way, they...