Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Spain's Francisco Franco set out for hot, dry Ciudad Rodrigo last week to meet with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, a rustle of speculation swept through Madrid. What, asked the wags, could bring the dictators out of their palaces in weather like this...
...offense to democratic usage and the good sense of the Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...
...iron fist of Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, Haiti's new boss, fell on the black republic last week, bringing temporary calm. After a weekend of arson and terror, the sullen followers of exiled provisional President Daniel Fignole went back to work. Kebreau jammed the jails with political prisoners...
Crime & Punishment. In San Antonio, Sheriff Owen Kilday, faced with heavy repair bills on TV sets smashed during county jail riots, warned that he was going to crack down hard if any more sets were damaged: prisoners would not be allowed to watch Dragnet or The Lineup...
...fast for power, he postponed the presidential elections originally set for June 16, then maneuvered to get himself a full six-year term without an election. He ordered the army to purge itself of anti-Fignole officers, demanded commissions for his black civilian partisans. Once he routed Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, the chief of staff, out of bed at 2 a.m. because he wanted to talk...