Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wedtech Corp. seemed to be a modern urban fairy tale, a kind of parable showing that America was still the land of opportunity. The story began in New York City in 1965, when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. The firm, then known...
...dance company's board chairman, is also friends with N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Bautista, who promises to "keep the lid on" until the case is solved. The pair met in Haughton Murphy's first novel, Murder for Lunch. In their second encounter, the Princeton-educated attorney and the Puerto Rican- born cop blend culture and crime as expertly as the bartender at Frost's private club mixes martinis...
...million. North even seems to have engaged in near blackmail when officials in Costa Rica threatened to close this airstrip. After consulting with Elliott Abrams, the top State Department official on contra policy, and Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, North reported that he called Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez to threaten that the U.S. would cut off $80 million in aid if this happened. Costa Rica closed the field anyway; the aid continued...
Earlier yesterday, Hernandez-Colon met withDean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A.Michael Spence to discuss establishing a channelfor increasing awareness of Puerto Rican culturethrough the Center for International Affairs, saidS. Allen counter Jr., director of the HarvardFoundation...
...Semana Puertorriquena" concludes today with alecture by noted Puerto Rican author Luis RafaelSanchez, at 8:15 p.m. in Boylston Hall