Word: caudillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full extent of the nation's economic ruin was never fully understood by the descamisados Perón left behind; all they knew was that their heroic Caudillo had been driven out. It was left to the interim military government of General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu to assess the damage-and to Arturo Frondizi, elected in 1958, to attempt some permanent repairs...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 69, had fired off some 40 shots when the left barrel of his British Purdey suddenly exploded. "It is a matter of little importance," shrugged the icy-veined old soldier, surveying his bleeding left hand. "Give me a handkerchief to tie it up." The Caudillo seemed unfazed by the fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since...
...Chief of Government of Nationalist Spain. Since then, the world and its leaders* have changed many times. The Great Depression was followed by world war, which was followed by agonies of reconstruction and the cold war; nations were born, others swallowed up. But Francisco Franco Bahamonde, 68, was still Caudillo of Spain-and for all anyone could tell, he might still be in 25 more years...
...even sent a division of infantry to fight Russia). In 1946, the new United Nations, determined to bring down the last fascist dictator in Europe, cut him off from the world by imposing a boycott which lasted five years. Spaniards, always resentful of foreign meddling, immediately united behind the Caudillo. From his palace at El Pardo near Madrid, Franco thumbed his nose at the West, saying that the West would eventually come around...
When Pablo Casals set to work on an oratorio titled El Presebre (The Manger) in 1943, he intended it to be performed on the occasion of Franco's downfall. In the 17 years since then, El Caudillo has looked as healthy as ever, while age has begun to slow up even the indefatigable Casals, who just turned 84. In the course of his birthday celebrations, the composer bowed to the inevitable: in Acapulco, at the climax of a two-week Mexican Casals festival that ended last week, he mounted the podium to give El Presebre its world premi...