Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time grows short, Adlai Stevenson may lose some nervous adherents. (Says San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr.: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate, but if I had to decide between a going-Jesse of a Lyndon Johnson and a reluctant Adlai, I'd be for Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
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...they made a great deal-LeMay's remarks inevitably brought an outraged reaction from the hard-lobbying, politically potent National Guard Association, which sees a threat to the Guard's existence behind every career general's star. The militiamen, holding their national convention in San Antonio last week, cheered Texas Governor Price Daniel's charge that LeMay is an enemy of states' rights-"the typical Federal-minded bureaucrat that thinks the Federal Government has to run everything." The association brushed aside Air Force Secretary James Douglas' conciliatory telegram explaining that Le May had intended...
...partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just the man to get in there and get the merchandise moving...
...classmates' future. Five months after his graduation, he fell out of formation, crashed his plane into a ditch at Kelly Field, was so badly injured that he was first taken to a local morgue. Both legs were crushed, his skull fractured. After nearly a year in a San Antonio hospital, Beatie was still so badly crippled that he was forced to retire from the Army...