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Daniel J. Rufo, president of the firm, said he would have to cut off a few top stories from each of the three towers in the complex to keep within an FAR of six. In addition, the above-ground portion (3 stories high) of a five-story garage would have to be eliminated, Rufo said...
...disillusioned still fled. Among them: Rufo López Fresquet, Castro's first Finance Minister; Julio Duarte Ruiz, president of the General Accounts Tribunal; Enrique Menocal, secretary of the Sugar Institute; seven Cuban seamen who jumped ship in the Panama Canal Zone; five Dominican exiles who tried to row their way to freedom in Florida...
...such places as Calico Rock, Ash Flat and Evening Shade. "The family album," he has said, "was my research." Working in bright tempera because "it responds to me better," he painted everything from the Baptist Sunday school he had attended, to a memory called "The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff it killed him." By last week, as his latest one-man show was being put together at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, his hand was surer than ever, but his heart was still at home...
...disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...proposal, as leaked from the office of Finance Minister Rufo Lopez Fresquet, was so zany that the Cuban press thought somebody was pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister...