Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks in the heart of Cambridge's Hispanic neighborhood...
...currently playing a hookah-smoking private eye in Jeremy Kagan's The Big Fix, and next spring he will portray a ruthless director in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play...
...smooth-stroking Coglin, who led the whole way and looked stronger and stronger as the grueling 40-lap race progressed, was followed by gutsy Crimson co-captain Paco Canales. Canales, who competed in the Montreal Olympics for Puerto Rico, spent the second half of the race engaging Navy's Chris Pearson in a thrilling neck-and-neck duel for second place...
Delegates at the Lehman Hall meeting suggested the Black Student Association, La Raza, a Mexican-American group, the Radcliffe Union of Students, La Organizacion, a group of Puerto Rican students and others as organization, that the committee might invite...
Hardest hit is Puerto Rico, which is almost entirely dependent on ocean shipping for its survival. About 80% of shipments to San Juan from Gulf and East Coast ports have been blocked. Fomento, the island's economic development agency, issued a report saying that at the end of the strike's sixth week-about now-67,000 jobs would be threatened, adding to unemployment that already stands at 194,000. At least 60 companies have shut down, and 3 million man-days of work have already been lost...