Word: aurora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted. Thereupon Taruc's three lawyers waived formal reading of the complaint and Taruc pleaded: "Guilty, Your Honor...
Hospital Siege. Several hours after the affair at La Locha, 80 boiling-mad cadets raced through the capital's outskirts to the half-completed Roosevelt Hospital, where a battalion of Liberators lay encamped, and attacked. From the army base beside nearby Aurora airfield, regular officers quickly saw the chance they had been waiting for, rushed reinforcements to the cadets...
...evenings later I went to call on a government official who lives on a hill at the end of a lonely dirt road not far from the Aurora airport. He spoke frankly about local politics, and agreed that President Arbenz's political future was not too bright. About midnight, the phone rang. It was a crony saying that the city's lights had gone out. As he spoke, the lights dimmed in our house, then went out. The night was pitch black. It was Guatemala's first apagoÓn (blackout). Said my friend: 'Perhaps...
Awards for participation against Princeton will be given Richard A. Levin '54 of East Orange, N. J. William J. Foote '55 of Aurora, III., and Verne W. Vanco '54 of Omaha...
...stay up long enough to send back a wealth of information. It can analyze virgin sunlight that has not been altered by passing through the atmosphere. It can measure the earth's magnetic field, catch cosmic rays and observe the particles shot from the sun that cause the aurora...