Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished mural. The crystal sphere at the bottom represents the human soul. Within it is a castle symbolizing the Church Militant. Spiraling up around the sphere are martyrs, saints and dignitaries of the Carmelite order. Borne amidst them on a shaft of light are St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross,* welcomed from above by the Madonna, and Child...
...industrialization, and he spent lavishly. Among his dams were grandiose, TVA-type projects, among his schools was a $25 million University City (TIME, Feb. 23). For Alemán and his friends, the biggest was best for Mexico-and for themselves. They remembered well the maxim of President Manuel Avila Camacho's brother: "If you build a road for 75,000 pesos and pocket 1,000, everybody will howl. But if you build a road for 75 million pesos and knock Dack a million, nobody will notice...
...compliments can be paid a gentleman than to call him "very manly." But Alemán and his pals got going so fast in their dizzy ride that the elder statesmen of the party decided things were getting out of hand. In Mexican politics, such former Presidents as Manuel Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alemán's right to pick...
...American League: Philadelphia 5, New York 0, with Philadelphia homers by Murray and Clark; Cleveland 6, Chicago 0, homers for Cleveland by R. Lemon and Avila; St. Louis 10, Detroit...
...pitching honors. Of the five American League pitchers to win 20 or more games this year, three were Indians: Bob Lemon (22-11), Early Wynn (23-12), Mike Garcia (22-11). Cleveland led the league in runs and in home runs, owned the three top run scorers (Roberto Avila, Al Rosen, Larry Doby), the two top home-run hitters (Doby, 32, Luke Easter, 31) and the league leader in runs-batted-in (Rosen, 105). But the porous Cleveland infield (Easter, Avila, Rosen, Boone) let the pennant slip through buttery fielding fingers, while the Yankees kept on winning the big games...