Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...team Bing Crosby with a group of lank-haired backup musicians in a collection of rock and folk hits-for examples, the Beatles' Hey Jude and Judy Collins' Both Sides Now. Meantime, Amos Productions continues to expand in other directions: independent producing, recording-studio engineering and shoe repair. Shoe repair? It seems that Bowen's father had a shop in Santa Barbara that was not doing well, so Bowen bought it out. With some of the royalties from Jimmy's first record hit, his father, once Dumas' police chief, bought a dairy farm in Missouri...
...Welcome. At 31, Bowen could well afford to subsidize a whole chain of shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...
Blood Oath. When he came out of Sing Sing in 1928 (it was his second jail term), he promptly began to repair bridges with the Cosa Nostra. In 1930, after passing his initiation-successful participation in a gangland assassination -Valachi went before Capo Maranzano ("Gee, he looked just like a banker"). Joe took his oaths with blood from his trigger finger and with flaming paper ("This is the way I will burn if I betray the secret of this Cosa Nostra...
...work does so. In the Cordón, a green belt around Havana where coffee and citrus trees have been planted, civil servants labor side by side with students, encouraged by the steady beat of the Brincos, the Latin Beatles, as it blasts from Radio Cordón. Habaneros repair to the Cordón for so-called "guerrilla weekends" of tackling weeds, in line with Fidel's plea for communal work and "true, fraternal, humane Communism." Dirty boots, rolled-up sleeves and talk of agriculture are marks of honor in today's Cuba, even in the cities...