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...they would be something of a rarity these days-three generations under one roof. They share a modest, four-bedroom house in Westchester, a mostly Cuban town in the western part of Dade County: Carlos Marquez Sterling, 83, and his wife Waldina Hernández Cata, 66; Daughter Uva, 37, and her husband Jorge J. Clavijo, 45; and their two children, Uvi, 17, and Christina, 12. As has been true of other Cuban families with several generations living in South Florida, some members of the Marquez Sterling dynasty have found adjusting to the American way of life difficult. Admits Uva...
...found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved to New York City, where Don Carlos eventually took a job teaching Spanish at Long Island's C.W. Post College. Jorge and Uva married in 1962. The entire family moved to South Florida...
...Cambridge...In fact, until the Army game last year, the last time the gridders had played a non-Ivy game away from home was 1949, at Stanford. They lost that one, 44-0. In 1947, the Crimson last journeyed to the state of Virginia and lost, 47-0, to UVa...
...earning All-America honors twice during his prep school career, Seelen drew the attention of college coaches around the country. In the end, he spurned scholarship offers from a number of other schools, including Duke and UVA, to follow an older brother to Harvard...
Nothing that "there were many bigger boys at GWU and UVa.," Feula said yesterday that he did perceive a strong sense of desire and willingness to work in the boys whom he has met. "Desire's a big word in my book" the sturdy 5 ft., 10 in., 215-pounder said, adding, "With a willingness to work, you can accomplish an awful...