Word: armando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-scoring center forward Armando Garces is known throughout Ivy territory for his propensity for trampling goalies. Garces will be joined on the attack by insides Bob Pearson and Willem Van Den Toorn. Arnold Hetzer leads a strong halfback corps, and Dick Press paces the defense from his fullback position. Goalie Denny Master has been difficult to score on so far this year...
Rich Rebels. When Castro's wild economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
...miles east of Atlantic City, most of Santa Rosa's 247 passengers lay asleep. In the bow, on lookout duty, Seaman Armando Gomez, 36, sighted the southbound tanker Valchem. "I heard her whistle a point and a half off the starboard bow," recalls Gomez, "and I reported it by telephone to the bridge. The second mate answered and said O.K. and blew our whistle." Ten minutes later, Gomez saw the tanker's lights ahead and off to the right, again reported to the bridge. Again the mate sounded the whistle. Then, says Gomez, "all of a sudden, within...
...Sanchez, an olive-skinned brunette of about 30. Castro's secretary and money handler, she was a key personage in the headquarters after Castro; captains and lieutenants moved on her orders as though the "commandante" had personally given them. Haydee Santamaria, 31, now the wife of Education Minister Armando Hart, joined the uprising after Batista's jailers killed her rebel fiance and brother. In Castro's casual headquarters she was a cook one moment, an adviser the next, finally went to the U.S. as contact and fund raiser. Dr. Isabel Rojas, 32, commanded the only organized women...
...Captain Armando Piedra, 40, pilot for Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took...