Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Feb. 16) organized nationalists for Peron in the 1946 elections, Father Dunphy worked and preached against what he called the nationalists' "unChristian" intolerance and lawlessness. For two years thereafter he stuck close to his own parish, occasionally writing letters to such Catholic newspapers as El Pueblo, or Cordoba's Los Principios...
...them are just on hand for the fun of it-a fine dancer (Paul Draper) who wants to be a comic; a lyric poet (Reginald Beane) of the hot piano; a cop (Broderick Crawford) so kind-hearted he wants to hand in his badge; an old Arab (Pedro de Cordoba) with exquisite hands and a diagnosis of the world's ills: "No foundation all down the line." The bartender is Bill Bendix at his gentlest...
...Mexican capitalist, unlike the old hacendado (landholder), is a self-made man. Take Ruiz Galindo. At 48 he is worth about $5,000,000; he started as a produce dealer, at 18 had his own small prospering business in tropical Cordoba. In his twenties he was star salesman in Mexico City for General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, and sold the firm's largest order in Mexico: material for Mexico's West Point-Colegio Militar de Mexico...
Heading northwest across the browns and greens of the pampas toward Cordoba one day last week, Argentina's Vice President and Strong Man Juan Domingo Perón looked out from his airplane seat at fleecy clouds and the three-plane fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers...
Captain Villegas, who got a tearful earful from Nina, waited until Colonel Perón left town last week for an inspection trip in Cordoba Province. Then one night, shortly before Evita was scheduled to go on the air as star of My Kingdom For Love, a version of the Elizabeth-Essex romance, someone in the control room switched on the microphone prematurely. Listeners all over Argentina heard the announcer say: "That tart...