Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...Diego...
...rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter David Siqueiros made the chief oration, larding it with Communist mouthings. "Even here," cried one of Rivera's daughters, Guadalupe, "you make your propaganda!" "Yes," Siqueiros answered. "Just as Diego...
...virtues, vices, boasts, buffooneries, lies and loves, Rivera was always flamboyant and noisy. Often he seemed only a big boy, but that was deceptive. And for the thousands of fellow Mexicans who referred to him affectionately as Diego, there were more thousands who called him Maestro. The second group honored Rivera's art-uneven, grandiose, and yet perhaps the most impressive body of painting ever produced by one man in the New World...
...Died. Diego Maria Concepcićn Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 70, Mexican Communist artist known the world over as Diego Rivera; of thrombosis and phlebitis; in Mexico City...