Word: amar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunis too, the bright promise of local autonomy that Premier Mendès-France brought (TIME, Aug. 9) was already being tarnished by old habits of suspicion. The venerable (72) Bey of Tunis, with Mendès' backing, appointed Tahar Ben Amar, 68, one of the protectorate's biggest landowners, to be Premier. He was certainly as pro-French as anyone could wish. But he immediately ran into difficulties...
...angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
...Lower California ranch, pretty Hollywood companions were also near at hand. In the end, the pace grew so dizzy that the President became involved in a notable indiscretion. Just after his retirement from office, he took off from his Lower California hideaway with a party including Leonora Amar, his Brazilian actress friend, for a week in Paris that was fully reported in Mexico, and, some Mexicans say, grievously dented his political influence...
...Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alemán's great and enduring friend, Brazilian Actress Leonora Amar, whom he had raised to stardom in Mexican films (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Handsome Miguel's friendship with the sultry Leonora was well known in Mexico, but previously both the President and the gossip had been discreet...