Word: alfredo
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...Gone are Peru's General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party of 30 top henchmen played guests of honor for the 146th anniversary of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain...
...first act to the flexible, bitter-sweet lyricism of the last, Tebaldi superbly defined Violetta's stirrings and renunciation; moreover, she avoided flawing the role with more than the necessary touches of sentimentality and melodrama. Baritone Leonard Warren was splendid as a resonant-voiced Germont. As Alfredo, Tenor Giuseppe Cam-pora had neither enough power nor presence to hold the stage, but to appear with Tebaldi in last week's production would not have been easy for any singer. The Met crowd was clearly there to render personal homage to Tebaldi, and at the end, there were...
...soon as they arrived, the visiting Presidents fanned out in search of old friends. Chile's Ibáñez popped in on Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner bright and early the day before the conference; Costa Rica's José Figueres dumped his bags in his room and headed for the hotel coffee shop for a chat with a group of old pals. At the first formal meeting at Arias' presidential palace, the informal talks went...
Petrofina, which has extensive holdings in Africa, Mexico and the Middle East, was invited into Canada by a veteran Canadian oilman, Alfredo Campo, 51, who is now Canadian Petrofina's president. Campo was sales manager for another big company (McColl-Frontenac) when he decided to set up his own firm in 1953. He tried to raise capital in Canada but failed to interest any of his fellow countrymen. Said Campo philosophically: "Canadians are too cautious." Finally, he got in touch with Petrofina's head office in Brussels and negotiated the backing...
...boxing sinful? Two Roman Catholic moralists are slugging it out over the issue, while Italy roots at the ringside. In the staid church fortnightly. Palestra del Clero, Jesuit Alfredo Boschi has been conducting a campaign against the sport as a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." "Professional boxing can not be justified from a moral viewpoint but must be condemned as something gravely illicit in itself," he wrote. "It not only produces but aims to produce serious injuries which can become permanent and can lead to death...