Word: bueno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another former director, Moacir Ribeiro Coelho (1962-63), reportedly committed 41 crimes, ranging from embezzlement to loan-sharking with Indian Service funds. In Paraná state, Lauro de Souza Bueno and four of his relatives-all Indian Service employees-made a family affair of their corruption; according to the government, they embezzled Service funds and tortured and enslaved dozens of Indians. Vinhas, Ribeiro, the five Buenos and 52 other persons-more than half of them members of the Service-have been formally charged with crimes ranging from embezzlement and collusion in murder to slavery and misappropriation of Indian property...
...last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that if the Brazilian girl had not been off her game she would have beaten Billie Jean-and wasn...
Champion & a Lady. It took Billie Jean a whole year to come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
...Brazil's Maria Bueno, 24: the women's All-England tennis championship, beating Australia's defending champion, Margaret Smith, in three sets, 6-4, 7-9, 6-3; at Wimbledon. Recovered at last from the hepatitis that kept her out of action for six months. School-teacher Bueno relied mostly on flat, efficient ground strokes to score her second major victory over the 21-year-old Aussie in less than a year (the other: the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills last summer). Said the weary winner: "Everybody said it would be difficult to come back-and they...
...best food and service at the fair. An armada of waiters hovers around to keep the diner happy. Though the Toledo specializes in fine French cuisine, it will cheerfully give you the works in Spanish too. Start with an andaluza, follow with gazpacho soup (muy bueno) and fill up on paella. Don't forget the sangria, a red wine with soda...