Word: amaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summoned to Congress by a Senate debate on the bloody civil war plus banditry that has scattered nearly 300,000 bodies across Colombia (pop. 13.5 million) in eleven years, Minister of Government Guillermo Amaya last week coolly proved that the flow of blood is ebbing. During the first six months of 1958, said Amaya, 3,198 people were slaughtered in backlands violence-an average of 15.2 a day.* In the past six months the death toll shrank to 841, and by March the daily killing average was down to four...
Tears & Laughter. Mexicans agree that Lola Flores does not dance quite as well as Carmen Amaya, or sing as well as Argentine-born Cinemactress Imperio Argentina. Some other dancers have perhaps been more beautiful. But none combined beauty, grace and voice like Lola Flores. Already the toast of Spain, she is creating the greatest stir in Mexico's entertainment world since the brilliant bullring performance of Manolete...