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...very pleased and flattered that you printed the photograph of our small city-state. However, I would like to mention that this was not our personal Christmas card, but one that we sent out in behalf of the Asthmatic Children Research Institute. Also, our fourth child is named Monsita Teresa, not "Theresa." Please forgive my pedantic insistence on correct Spanish spelling, but I'm proud of my Latin American origins...
...Jeep at the bottom of a 150-ft. cliff on the north coast of the tight little island. Said El Cáribe: "The accident in which Driver Rufino Cruz and the sisters Patria Mirabal de Gonzáles, Minerva Mirabal de Tavárez and Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman died is presumed to have happened when Cruz lost control of the vehicle...
Trial by Night. As the U.S. answered Castro's shrill accusations, it got some backing from an unexpected source. In Manhattan, Ambassador Teresa Casuso, a longtime friend of Castro's, and Cuba's alternate U.N. delegate, announced bitterly that she had resigned. Said Casuso: "Castro talks in the name of liberating us, but he is a dictator...
...Deal, Florida's Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, served in Congress, later became Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, the first woman to head a foreign mission. The doughty Frances Perkins became F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor-the first woman Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence of New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, served with distinction for 26 years (once. when a colleague referred to her as a lady, Mrs. Norton snapped: "I'm no lady. I'm a member of Congress!"). Hattie Caraway of Arkansas reached...
...Teresa Arceo threaded her way through the labyrinthian corridors of a government building in Mexico City to the appropriate office, where her son Luis was to take his examination for a radio-television announcer's license. In the absence of a baby sitter, the anxious mother brought along her baby daughter Janette as well. During the interview, the overtrained Luis muffed some of the questions; but his precocious, farina-fed sister belted out the answers in such clear, bell-like show-biz tones that the licensing board turned from the eleven-year-old Luis and licensed Janette, making...