Ten Routes to the American Dream

Brought By Family, Lured By Fortune Or Seeking Freedom, They Now Call the U.S. Home

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Goizueta

Scion of an aristocratic Cuban family, he studied chemical engineering at Yale and, after returning to his homeland in 1954, took a job with the Coca- Cola Co. Goizueta came to the U.S. permanently in 1961 to escape the Castro regime and counts himself one of the lucky Cuban refugees: "I had an education and a job." He became a citizen in 1969. Named president of Coca- Cola in 1980 and chairman of the board a year later, Goizueta, 53, now runs one of the most multinational of multinational corporations; other top officers are from Argentina, Germany, Italy and...

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