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Chosen to head the revolutionary government: José Miró Cardona, 58, a respected Havana lawyer, whose credentials are as good in Cuba as they are in the United States. Miró Cardona was Fidel Castro's first Prime Minister but quit in anger and disgust after 39 days. Never much of a politician, Miró Cardona leads no movement of his own and promises to serve only until elections, for which he will not be a candidate. When and if the council manages to win a piece of Cuban soil, Provisional President Miró Cardona will move...
...mir bist du schön-Please let me explain...
...mir bist du schön means that you're grand...
...into the pockets of Secunda and Jacobs. Secunda's mother was so certain that God was thus punishing her for her sins that she went to a synagogue and remained there for an entire day, fasting and praying for forgiveness. But in the 24 years that followed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön went on relentlessly inflating the fortunes of others. People have bought 250,000 copies of Bei Mir sheet music and 2,500,000 Bei Mir records-for a total gross...
...could renew it. Secunda, 66, now writes liturgical music, and in summer is music director of a resort hotel in the Catskills. Jacobs runs a Yiddish vaudeville house in Miami Beach. Secunda has signed a new contract with Harms, Inc., music publishers, and the partners are assured that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön is still worth at least $5,000 yearly. They shrug off the $350,000 they might have had. Says Secunda: "Mother was convinced that the big day would come...