Word: alberto
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Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...
More because of the program than the performance, the Paganini Quartet produced a remarkable concert last Friday night. Two important modern works, by Alberto Ginestera and Anton Webern, carried away the best efforts of the Quartet, but stand-by quartets by Haydn and Beethoven received flat performances...
Solidarity and Safety. After spending the night in Los Núñez, the Venezuelan version of the White House, the Kennedys planned to jet off for Bogotá, where the President would confer with Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, another good South American friend of the U.S. As it was originally conceived. President Kennedy's trip to Latin America had been seen as a ritualistic way for the U.S. to demonstrate the importance it places on hemispheric solidarity. Then, after the commitments were made, came the deep worries about the physical safety of John and Jacqueline...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
Lonely Question Mark. Even more prestigious than Tobey is the top sculptor, Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti of Paris. Giacometti once declared that he wanted his figures to be "immense." But in working on them, he is almost always driven to whittling them down to emaciation, as if he were looking for some elusive essence inside one layer of flesh after another. His figures seem still to be searching for that essence long after they leave his studio, eternal and lonely question marks...