Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick, his personal physician will accompany him on the tour. A team of paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade, and three hospitals will have volunteer staffs ready to take care of him. For the expected crowd of 500,000, the city hospitals and American Red Cross will man nine first-aid stations on the Common, and 34 extra ambulances will be ready for duty...
...other incident, Harvard said they would continue to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Road so the building could be turned into office space for the Graduate School of Design. Some city officials, including the man who drafted the final version of the law, claim a new ordinance might make Harvard's action illegal...
...Todo es mejor" ("Everything is better"), says one old man, dismissing my question about life after the revolution with a wave of his knarled hand. For much of this century he tilled the land, and, like many Cubans, was able to work only sporadically. Now he is a member of the self-contained rural cooperative Jibacoa, a dairy farm outside Havana with its own shops, schools, and health care facilities. Farmers who decide to join these rural communities receive payment for the sale of their farms and move to the state farms, where they are paid by the state...
Castro is less optimistic about the ability of any revolution to create a "new socialist man." He is also more of a realist. Publicly he has acknowledged the difficulty involved in supplanting old attitudes, which he calls "hangovers form the capitalist value system." Even though the revolution has managed to change the foundation of society from one of competition to cooperation, stealing from the government at the expense of fellow workers persists...
During his lengthy tenure as Crimson squash mentor, Barnaby compiled an unparalled 354-95 record, including 20 national team championships, ten 6-man championships, and 21 Ivy League titles...