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Word: capris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eichmann at first worked as a surveyor for a German-American engineering firm called Capri. For the next several years he turned up under various aliases in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. By 1956 he was back in Argentina with a job as mechanic in the capital's outskirts, worked later on as an overseer on a farm in the interior. In 1958 he returned to Buenos Aires, became an office employee in an automobile plant and lived near the airport with his German wife and four children (the last was born after his family joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Beast in Chains | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...politicos also resented his Eastern-style narrow-brim hat, his frequent out-of-state junkets, his preference for Scotch and soda over bourbon and branch water, his preference for Oklahoma City's Golf and Country Club and plush Tower Club over such spots of legislative camaraderie as the Capri Motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trimming the Redhead | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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