Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also planning to spend some time in it. He will not make the full 1949 winter tour. After playing in tournaments at Los Angeles, Del Monte, Phoenix and maybe Long Beach, he will hurry home and try to find out how non-tournament golfers live. "It isn't the golf, it's the traveling," he says. "I want to die an old man, not a young...
...reported that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes as the New Year comes...
...that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
Well-Preserved Ruin. After breakfast Don Carlos reads for a while; one day it may be a chapter from Don Quixote, the next a treatise on heraldry. Then he mounts one of his two horses, rides out to the Rancho del Charro, puts the horse through its paces. Eleven o'clock finds him downtown at the Banco de Mexico, in spats and morning coat, checking over his investments. Sometimes he growls: "The Revolution has stripped me!" (In 1910 he owned 4,000,000. acres, now has ten.) The atmosphere of ruin is somewhat dissipated when he adds: "Only...
...business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...