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...times in Italy. He come in my house. He meet my parents. He say he in love with me and he want me to marry." She say no. However, after returning home and joining a couple of Army buddies at Boston University Law School, he began trading a steady stream of love letters in Italian with Remigia. They were married in Boston in June...
...stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork-tongued devils and scaly trolls. In defense, the Vietnamese must plant apricot shoots outside his home, scatter lime powder around the yard and set off giant strings...
Full Fathom Five. On July 31, 1715, while the fleet's nine merchant galleons and two men-of-war sailed northeast in a stately procession along the Gulf Stream from Havana, an early hurricane bashed them with 100-m.p.h. winds against Florida's offshore reefs, between 30 and 50 miles south of what is now Cape Kennedy. Only one galleon survived. Captain Ubilla and more than 1,000 of his men drowned. The battered remains of the ships' hulls sank in 30 feet of murky water. Spanish recovery crews, pirates and poachers, hampered by deceitful currents, sharks...
...university students are ignorant in the extreme. They do not know who Marx was or what the world situation is like. Furthermore, they basically do not dare to inquire about politics. The United States is a country full of secret agents. There, political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream. Whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a Communist. In that country a student, once tinged with "red," is unable to continue his studies--much less, to graduate. His relatives and friends will keep away from him. His fate is thus sealed...
Only 45 minutes out of Miami by jet, the Bahama Islands have long been one of the favorite playgrounds of Americans. Composed of 700 islands that are washed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the Bahamas have a population of only 140,000 people, 85% of them Negro. Yet for many years the islands' fate has been held firmly in the hands of a tight little group of white businessmen known as the "Bay Street Boys," after the main street of the capital of Nassau. The group's two dozen members controlled both Bahamian commerce...