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...oversize, undereducated kid, and he went right from it into baseball. In other words, he was adapted only to heavily masculine, institutional worlds, and then solely as show-off, big spender and clown. His first marriage, to a homebody (played here with spunky charm by Trini Alvarado), was a disaster; the only family that counted with him was the team and the raffish demimonde it inhabited off the field. Ruth fared better the second time around. Claire Ruth (Kelly McGillis, in a brave, hard-nosed performance), a sometime show girl, had nothing against partying, but she was tough, shrewd...
Competitors remain skeptical. Observes Octavio Alvarado, president of the Association of Aviculture: "All private producers fear competition from businesses protected by the government. It doesn't look right that members of the government also have business interests." Guillermo Arostegui, vice president of Gracsa's main competitor, the Numar Group, is in agreement: "It's obvious Lacayo has an advantage. He used to run Gracsa; now he runs the country...
...light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...
...renowned speed racer turned millionaire sports promoter, Mickey Thompson took a daring attitude toward trouble. Last November he remarked to friends in the Los Angeles area that some "nut" had been phoning him with death threats. "Mickey told me that some cuckoos were calling him at home," recalled Ernie Alvarado, who knew Thompson for 30 years. "He thought he knew who it was. I asked if he had called the police, and he just said it was taken care...
...thought there would have been a large snowball fight or something," said Dan Alvarado '89, who was driving a shuttle bus during the blackout. Instead, Alvarado said, the Quad was "very quiet. I wonder what they were doing...