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...mellow, yearning voice coming through the sound system has changed little: "I was born in Puerto Rico/ Came here when I was a child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces a rich dose of Latin rhythms and doo-wop music to Broadway. One riff from the electric keyboard caused him to make a face. "It's too synthy, too 'woo-woo.'" he said. "Have you got some nice strings?" Another muddy spot he wanted rerecorded...
...Today Havana blooms with chicly renovated hotels, neon signs, crowded restaurants and nightclubs. The U.S. dollar has swallowed the Cuban peso. Farmer's markets and mom-and-pop entrepreneurs fuel a production boom of sorts. Cars outnumber bicycles again in Havana, and many of them are 1990s Nissans, not 1950s Chevys. Foreign investors not only share ownership of new projects but also own some outright and ship much of their profits home. Modern telecommunications have replaced worn-out phones, and shops and markets offer plenty of goods to those who can afford...
...argument had merit--not least because that senior citizen was Glenn. The seven Mercury astronauts were perhaps the most exhaustively studied human beings in history, with medical dossiers going back to the 1950s. Such documentation would provide a priceless baseline of data if anyone cared to study the same subjects four decades later. Two of the seven astronauts have died, and four have long since got the foolishness of space travel out of their heads. Only Glenn was available to make the trip, and two years after he offered his services, Goldin bit. "This is a signal that...
...year-old Adam with a loving home--exactly what the dedicated couple have been doing as foster parents since Adam was a cocaine-addicted infant. What could be more Christian than that? How odd that in 1997 the religious right insists that the Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s is the only viable one. SCOTT SEOMIN Los Angeles...
...late 1950s, Crimson editors delighted in tripping up then-Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy's maneuvering in Faculty meetings, according to a former editor who asked not to be identified...