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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...
...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...
...Michael Leon Carr is the best at his position in the history of the National Basketball Association. His position is the end of the bench, not far from the end of the line. "But it isn't just a bench," he insists. "It's the Boston Celtics' bench. It's a throne." To say the least, this attitude annoys opposing fans, who are used to brooders at the ends of benches. And the fans are right to be bothered by M.L. Carr, worrying his white towel at them like a red cloth at a bull. Even more than Larry Bird...
...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...
...leather flight jacket from Navy Secretary John Lehman, presented on the 40th anniversary of a bombing raid in which Bush was shot down at sea near Iwo Jima. In the self-improvement category, Bush received a 29-volume history of Ecuador (in Spanish), presented to him by President Leon Febres Cordero, while Reagan presumably had more fun with his gift of six movies on videocassette...