Word: aurora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abroad he laid out $100,000 for publicity, including $30,000 for full-page ads in the New York Times ("Guatemala-Panorama of Progress"). In the capital's Aurora park he set thousands of masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready...
...Yale University junior is under arrest in Aurora, Colo., awaiting possible arraignment on attempted murder charges as a result of a wild shooting spree in front of his father's home Thursday night...
Robert L. Johnson '55 of Aurora and Yale's Saybrook College, wounded two Aurora policemen, one of whom was his own uncle, before being seized and disarmed. Police conjectured that recent reported family difficulties deranged Johnson and he intended to threaten his father's life. When surprised on the street-by police officers, he suddenly went berserk, it is believed, and opened fire without warning...
...Tuesday morning, but was not officially reported mission until Wednesday night. Then New Haven police sent out a nation-wide description and broadcast a 13 state alarm for the student. Suspecting that Johnson might be headed for Colorado, the New Haven police station alerted the police of Denver and Aurora, a Denver suburb where Johnson's father and stepmother reside...
Ghost Town. In Indianapolis, with 40,000 of a 350,000 run of new highway maps already printed, the state highway commission discovered that its printers had accidentally removed the city of Aurora...