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...Victor Valles Solan, too, feels passionately about his children. He has five of them, and in Cuba, where he once ran a small steel foundry, he began to feel that they were becoming hostages to the fortunes of the state. "We were allowed a ration of only one liter of fresh milk every other day," says Valles, 46, "but what is more important is that every day the children learned Communist doctrine in the schools, and going to church was never talked about. I realize that I am going to the United States with many illusions, but for me your...
Last week, these voyagers all took off for America, just in time to celebrate their first July 4 holidays. The Kaffases, with their two children of 11 and 8, headed for Philadelphia, where Niki's brother hopes to find Theodosios work in a restaurant. Victor Valles Solan took his family to Melrose Park, 111., where he has a job making engine blocks. Dr. Pethica was bound for Potsdam, N.Y., where he will become dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Clarkson College of Technology...
...direct transportation between Cuba and the U.S., some 300 refugees, many of them old and sick, fly to Madrid every week. There, usually living on charity, they have to wait at least three months, often much longer, while five harassed U.S. officials try to process their papers. (Foundry Operator Victor Valles Solan, who took off last week, had waited two years for clearance...
...Victor Garber, who plays Perdita's young suitor Florizel, is entirely new to me, and he's a real find. He is exceedingly attractive, the model of an earnest, ardent innocent. He speaks well (unlike Richard Backus last year), and exudes love. One could not ask for better. Richard Dix remains properly warm-hearted as the Old Shepherd, although he shaves off 13 years from the age Shakespeare puts into his mouth; and this year he has a new son in John Tillinger, who makes a droll dimwitted dupe...
Late last week Beame was able to defer an imminent strike of hospital workers by delaying the firing of still more employees. Victor Gotbaum, local head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has vowed to lead an illegal stoppage from jail, if necessary, to prevent an additional 3,150 layoffs (5,900 already had been let go). If Beame yields to such pressure, he will have to scramble to save dollars elsewhere. Tense bargaining with other major unions this month could produce new conflicts...