Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They will need it, for Milwaukee's Braves are far from dead. After five players had failed to fill the hole left at second by Red Schoendienst, out with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home...
...league's best catcher in Gus Triandos, but then things tail off rapidly, though first-baseman Bob Boyd is definitely a strong infielder. At this point one's eye inevitably falls on the likes of Willie Miranda of the porous bat, Brooks Robinson of the unrealized potential and Bobby Avila of the better days: the Orioles will not make it out of the second division...
...rdenas' successor, Manuel Avila Camacho, got Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
...expected of every Mexican president since 1911, when illiterate Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata cried "Land and Liberty!" In the first 18 years of the program six Presidents handed over 17½ million acres to landless peasants. Land Reformer Lazaro Cárdenas (1934-40) parceled out 45 million acres; Avila Camacho (1940-46). 13 million acres; Miguel Alemán (1946-52). 10 million. In all, 93 million acres, nearly 20% of Mexico's total area, were handed over to 2,000,000 landless peons, who organized themselves into ejidos (agricultural cooperatives). But Ruiz Cortines, whose term expires in December...
Admiral Larrazábal turned the army down cold. The Cabinet, minus Castro León, hurried down Mount Avila to confer under the protective shadow of navy ships commanded by Larrazábal's brother Carlos. In Caracas, a well-organized mob of 20,000 leftists marched into downtown Plaza Silencio with pistols, lead pipes and machetes to shout curses at the "dirty militarists" and, for good measure, "the Yankee imperialist dogs...