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...Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president of Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., a Mexican subsidiary of Ana conda, has been a vice president of the parent company since...
...afford to keep her. In the next five years the child was batted back and forth from family to family. In all, she lived with twelve families, all poor. Once she was "sent back" because she made the lady nervous. Once she was happy with a goodhearted woman named Ana Lower. Once she lived in a drought area with a family of seven people; they all bathed once a week in the same tub of water, and the "orphan girl" was always the last one in the tub. There was always the dry bread, the army cot by the water...
...looking into the case of Rudolf Slansky and 13 Communist comrades, most of them executed in 1952 for "Tito-ism." This suggested that a whole series of "Titoist" purges in the satellite countries (e.g., Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Rumania's Ana Pauker, Albania's Koci Xoxe) might be reopened. It was given out in Moscow that the last victims on the mad Stalin's liquidation list had been Molotov, Voroshilov and Khrushchev himself...
...declaration early in February of an amnesty for political exiles excited and heartened the homesick expatriate Arcayas. Son Carlos and daughter Ana flew to Manhattan from Madrid. Eager but doubtful, they conferred with son Mariano, a Park Avenue lawyer. On advice from home, Ana went to Caracas and arrived unharmed. Carlos, a scholarly, nonpolitical lawyer, was picked to make the next test. The New York consul gave him a visa and General Pérez Jiménez' word on the honor of the army that he would not be mistreated...
...Santa Ana, Calif...