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...next year before a vote can be held to fill Meluskey's seat. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania politicians have something to ponder. The cause of Meluskey's death: heart failure, possibly triggered, said a Dade County, Fla., medical examiner, by the stress of campaigning...
Some 700,000 largely middle-class Cuban refugees have fled their Communist-dominated island home for the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power. Of these, 430,000 have settled in southern Florida's Dade County, where they were initially welcomed with sympathy and federal relocation grants. The Cubans have long since spread out from Little Havana. Neighboring Hialeah (pop. 133,000) is 65% Latin, and the Cubans have moved on to such well-tended suburbs as Coral Gables, Kendall and Westchester. They have prospered mightily, prompting Cuban Writer José Sanchez-Boudy to boast with only slight hyperbole...
Cuban enterprise has transformed Miami and Dade County into a dynamic commercial center. The area now boasts 230 latino restaurants, 30 furniture factories, 20 garment plants, a shoe factory that employs 3,000, and about 30 transplanted cigar factories. Hispanics are prominent in land development and make up 60% of the construction work force. They control 14 of the 67 local commercial banks. One, the Continental National, has seen its deposits swell from $2 million to $29 million in the past four years. Latinos generate an estimated $1.8 billion in annual income and have created 100,000 jobs. Says...
...Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine; Arthur J. Dyck, Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics; Benjamin G. Ferris, professor of Environmental Health Engineering; David Mark Hegsted, professor of Nutrition; George B. Hutchinson, professor of Epidemiology; Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology in Nutrition; Brian MacMahon, Walcott Professor of Environmental Psychology; Dade W. Moeller, professor of Engineering Environmental Health and associate director, Kresge Center for Environmental Health; Roger L. Nichols, Heinz Professor of Microbiology and associate director, Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases; Hilton A. Salhanick, Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology; Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition; Thomas H. Weller, Strong Professor...
After calling some 800 witnesses and studying 29 local CETA efforts, the Dade County grand jury cited testimony indicating that the South Florida program "felt itself politically obligated to respond favorably to numerous requests from officials of county government." Adds Assistant State Attorney Thomas Petersen: "There was all this money for all these programs, but no one had time to plan or evaluate them. The wrong people ended up benefiting...