Word: hernandez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernandez, a former dancer who remains its director and sole choreographer, the Folklorico fills the stage and the eye with the splendor of a national heritage that is a blend of Indian and Spanish elements. The company's lavish costumes, liberally splashed with gold and feathered beyond a peacock's fondest hopes, would stun the senses even if they were worn by mannequins. The 90 traveling members of the troupe-dancers, singers and instrumentalists-are considerably more than that...
...French-Spanish upper class. Some of the numbers look to those with long memories, a little like the big musical bit just before, say, Ramon Novarro and Dolores del Rio could have met by moonlight in some hypothetical Latin extravaganza. Far more striking are the pieces in which Choreographer Hernandez has reconstructed, mostly out of ancient manuscripts and drawings, something resembling the ritualistic processions and dances of Mexico's Indian prehistory...
...Four Don'ts. Don't be aggressive; hijackers are usually armed, and they tend to be nervous. (The penalty for hijacking is death, or 20 years in prison.) Their choice of weapons varies. Guns and knives are common. But R. Hernandez, a 23-year-old Cuban refugee who held up a National Airlines DC-8 in July, brandished what he claimed was a hand grenade. When the plane landed in Havana, it turned out to be a bottle of after-shave lotion wrapped in a handkerchief...
Prayer parodies also seem to be in vogue in Castro's Cuba. Last week Radio Progreso in Havana broadcast an interview with a campesino named Apolinar Hernandez, 60, who out of gratitude for his new life since the glorious revolution is teaching his children a prayer of thanksgiving to the bearded Maximum Leader...
Riding along The Drag, Newsboy Aleck Hernandez was practically catapulted off his bicycle when a bullet slammed into its seat?and his, inflicting a painful wound. Three blocks up The Drag, Basketball Coach Billy Snowden of the Texas School for the Deaf stepped into the doorway of the barbershop where he was having his hair cut and was wounded in the shoulder. Outside the Rae Ann dress shop on The Drag, Iraqi Chemistry Student Abdul Khashab, 26, his fiancée Janet Paulos, 20, whom he was to have married next week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded...