Word: celia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming-out party in London's smart Quaglino's restaurant, Celia Sandys, 17, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally...
When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
Bayonets in Recife. Things are a lot livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes...
Flitting home to Argentina, Celia played an encore at the University...
Pills from the U.S. As the school was closed for repairs, Celia gave a gossipy interview to reporters about Che's doings. "My boy is a very busy young man. He has recently been examined by a Soviet doctor, who prescribed some pills for his asthma that are doing him lots of good. These pills, of course, are made in the U.S. The last time I saw my boy, he had a deep wound on his right cheek. He told me it happened while he was cleaning his gun, but I don't believe...