Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tinkering with 98 of the 218 articles of the old constitution, drawn up by Conservative Hero Miguel Antonio Caro in 1886, the commission planned to extend the President's term from four to six years and give him dictatorial emergency powers, tie could declare a state of siege, fire almost anybody from public or private jobs, quash impeachments and decree laws that the supreme court could not nullify. The constitution would establish the Roman Catholic Church as the state religion, permit Protestants to worship in their churches or other private places, but not to proselyte...
...most people, 67-year-old Monsignor Antonio Bacci of the Vatican might seem a lonely man. He admits that he is-sometimes. His title is Secretary of Briefs to Princes, but not even the princes to whom he writes always understand what he says. The language Monsignor Bacci uses officially is an elegant Ciceronian Latin, and few men, says he ("inter doctos quoque viros"), can read it with ease...
...bright, but she was no student. She sighed with relief when she was through at Miss Wolcott's, a Denver finishing school, and could turn to the real and fascinating business of her young life: ruling her string of beaux. Then, on a family winter vacation in San Antonio, she met 2nd Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nine months later, at 19, she was married. She went for a honeymoon visit with Eisenhower's parents in Abilene, Kans., had her marriage's first bitter quarrel - after Dwight refused, in flat tones, to come home until he had broken...
...explanation: bull handlers in Spain soften up the bulls beforehand by trimming their horns. Last week aficionados on both sides of the Atlantic were embroiled in hot debate-and the Latin Americans had confirmation of their darkest suspicions-after a series of revelations by no less an authority than Antonio Bienvenida, rated among Spain's top ten matadors...
Died. Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 70, anti-Fascist Italian-born author (Goliath, the March of Fascism; Common Cause) and longtime (1936-48) professor of Italian literature at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Fiesole, Italy. A tireless booster of the League of Nations, he became disillusioned after its failure, decided that nothing short of true world government would work. He regarded the U.N. with pity, called it "a child growing up in an iron lung" because it was not based on the abolition of political boundaries...