Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coups in its 154 years of independence. Five months ago, ending a decade of military rule, Bolivia held presidential elections that alas produced no clear-cut results. Congress then selected Walter Guevara Arze to serve as interim President until another vote could be held next May. Last month Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch, a former commander of the military training school, ousted Guevara in a coup. But Natusch decided to vacate the presidential palace-literally through the back door -after widespread protests against his usurpation. Ignoring the fact that Guevara was, at least technically, the country's lawful acting President...
...surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they...
...wings did the Harvard offense suddenly ignite, score 11 goals in five games, and, in combination with a defense that allowed but one goal in that stretch, carry the Crimson through its five game win streak. Keller-Sarmiento and Mike Mogollan played brilliantly at times with help from Alberto Villar on the wing...
Texas El Paso, featuring a band of Kenyans, narrowly won the event, with Oregon and Washington State finishing close behind. Henry Rono of Washington State, won the individual title, beating out Oregon's Alberto Salazar by almost ten seconds, with a time...
...last week's chaos was all too routine. In a country that has had 188 coups in the past 154 years (and once had three heads of state in a single 24-hour period), the most notable thing about the overthrow of President Walter Guevara Arze by Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch was its timing. It came just days after U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had urged Bolivia's leading politicians to support the country's first civilian government after a decade of military rule...