Word: namo
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...Namo and I had some vague notion of our direction, of looking for the Great American Spring Vacation in Florida, in Fort Lauderdale, mixing with the young and healthy and promising Undergraduates of Our Time. Hearty drinking and hedonism--it was a simple goal. A little honest lust had a definite appeal. There had been too many nights spent squinting at obscure volumes in Lamont, too many nights hanging out at House grilles and Harvard Square bars, too many pointless dinner conversations, too many wild spring days already spent in gloomy rooms and lecture halls. Our 20-year-old libidos...
...professors' closing remarks in our last classes before vacation might as well have been starters' pistols. Our clutches engaged and Namo and I opened our throttles. Bags were packed, a care was rented. I found a party in Connecticut Friday night. Saturday Namo arrived from Cambridge with a big blue boat of a rented car. We got unlimited mileage in the rental deal, and we had collision insurance, too. Namo grinned when he told me. The people at the rental agency would not have liked his grin. Saturday night we spent driving in a storm, moving south at 75 miles...
...Juan, Puerto Rico. He returned $2 million in ransom money that had been taken to Cuba in 1972 by the skyjackers of a Southern Airways DC-9. He also toned down the anti-American rhetoric on Cuban radio concerning the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...been abusive as ever toward the U.S. and the OAS, longtime observers now sense that his tune could change quickly-if Moscow were to order it and if Washington were to come across with an agreement to, say, give up the Navy's obsolete base at Guantànamo and invite Cuba back into the lucrative U.S. sugar quota system...
...Guantánamo, known as "Gitmo" to Navymen, was granted to the U.S. under a 1903 treaty signed after the Spanish-American War. The base covers 45 sq. mi., contains a supply depot and repair facilities, and is visited by about 130 Navy vessels a year...