Word: camacho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spread rapidly iow has chapters in factories all over Spain; it has also reached some white-collar employees, such as bank clerks and office personnel. In theory, the commissions are illegal, but in fact they are tacitly tolerated by the government, though one of their organizers, ex-Socialist Marcelino Camacho, is now on trial in Madrid on charges of leading an illegal demonstration. As a result, Camacho has become something of a modern Spanish hero...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
Since 1962, archaeologists Cynthia Irwin Williams, of the Peabody Museum, and Juan Camacho of the University of Puebla, Mexico, have been excavating man-made stone tools and weapons found with the remains of long-extinct animals in Central Mexico...
...country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor was dragged from her home by three thugs. Says Colombia's National Police Commander Bernardo Camacho Leyva: "Kidnaping threatens to become a worse menace than la violencia...
...followed his merchant father to the U.S., learned the banking business from cage to vault at San Francisco's Bank of Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle in Mexico and helped him start Mexico City's splendid Hipodromo de las Americas race track on an army parade ground. Avila Camacho's successor, Miguel Aleman, also became friendly with Pagliai, helped him to form his seamless tube...