Word: miamian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, blandly told reporters he was only trying to beat the heat of Miami Beach, where he lives. He is also trying to beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven years and went back to Cuba voluntarily before we had exhausted anywhere near all the possibilities...
Fifty MIG-15s bore down on a flight of U.N. fighter bombers near the Yalu; up streaked four U.S. F-86 Sabre jets to meet them. Flying the lead Sabre was Captain "Manuel Fernandez Jr., a 28-year-old Miamian on his 117th combat mission (already 17 missions over the standard 100; he wants to fly 150 in all). Fernandez got his sights on a MIG, started firing from 1,200 ft. away. Later he reported matter of factly: "Large pieces started falling off him, and fire broke out in his tailpipe section. He fell over on the left wing...