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After three days at Mariel, three of us took up the government's standing offer of a diversionary trip to the Triton Hotel in Havana. A Castro showpiece, the 22-story facility was turned into a luxury stockade for exiles willing to pay $44 a night. Guests were forbidden even to visit the oceanfront, and the crowded lobby became as squalid and confused a bedlam as the harbor was. Exiles lined up twelve deep to call loved ones in Havana over wall phones. Elevators broke down, and fistfights broke out. One Miami sales executive, clutching $8,000 in cash...
...Crimson went out like racehorses, rattling Mass. Maritime goalie Russ Wilson with six goals in the first 8:50 of the game. Faught commenced the pop-gun barrage with a tally on an assist from Hank Leopold, and Martin quickly followed with a first-quarter hat trick before Triton coach Bob Schillinglaw, in a futile attempt to regroup, called time-out at the nine-minute mark...
First, a wild pass eluded Mike Stewart at the offensive blue line and Mass Bay's Tom Scannell took off on a breakaway to notch the go-ahead goal. Then, Dea got checked off the puck at the blue line and Triton Richard Green was off on another full-rink dash and another goal. Mass...
...courses in basic writing and mathematics. "We take lower ability kids, yes," says Biology Chairman Don Giersch, "but we're able to instill confidence in a lot that might have bombed out elsewhere right away." Conversely, through the College Level Examination Program, older students can get credit at Triton for learning acquired outside the classroom...
Many legislators and establishment educators still treat Triton and its ilk like adolescent stepchildren. Although Illinois' community colleges enroll more than half the students in public higher education in the state, they receive only 13% of the higher-education budget. Similar slights are common across the country. Yet for many students who aspire to being something between ditchdigger and a nuclear physicist, the public community colleges are clearly filling an important void...