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Word: centuryold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strapped to the runner of a helicopter, Che's body was then flown to Valle Grande, a dirt-poor, two-centuryold town of 7,000 people set in rolling hills some 3,000 ft. high. At the airport, it was loaded into a truck and whisked down the narrow dirt and cobblestone streets to the town's Señor de Malta Hospital, run by German Dominican sisters. There four men in white and a nun went to work on Che, opening an incision in his neck for embalming fluid and washing his body. A man in civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: End of a Legend | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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