Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...
From the passports, the government also took thumbprints and compared them with the prints from Che's military records in Argentina. They matched. Carrying the names of Adolfo Mena and Ramon Benitez Fernandez, the two passports show that Che -if it was he-came to Bolivia briefly in 1963, returned for a few days last October, and came back again last March. The government claims that he went directly to the farm, which had been bought by a Castro front man. Setting up headquarters in some caves on the ranch, the guerrillas laid in large supplies of food...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
...wearing out"-but he took those words back last week when Banks hit his 17th homer of the season. The rest of the Cubs got the sugar lip-and the results are astonishing. Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, whose record last year was 6-8, is 12-7 this year. Centerfielder Adolfo Phillips, a .260 hitter in 1966, is batting .290. Third Baseman Ron Santo ranks third in the National League in homers (with 19) and fifth in RBIs (with...
When in London, he puts up with U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce; in Manhattan he lunches at the St. Regis with "Babe" Paley, wife of the CBS board chairman. And when time comes to cruise the Greek isles, he goes shipmate with Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Prince Adolfo Caracciolo and Kay Graham, the peripatetic but serious-minded owner of the Washington Post...