Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncharacteristically reticent, Artist Diego Rivera, 69, returned home to Mexico City after six months in Moscow, where he got radioactive cobalt treatment for skin cancer. In a rakish astrakhan hat and heavy overcoat, Communist Rivera politely gave terse answers to newsmen's questions. Was he completely cured? "Completely. I am a different man. The cobalt saved me." What's going on inside Russia? "The doctors are curing cancer." Will there be a major war soon? Muttered Rivera cryptically: "That is what many want." And then he was gone...
...road is opened Indiana will launch a promotional campaign such as Ohio is now considering, five months after its road opened. Theoretically, the best remaining route in the U.S. for a toll highway would be between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or south from Los Angeles to San Diego, but Californians are being uncharacteristically cautious about the possibility...
...spades out of his hand. He has been hoisted head-high by Ada Ash, billed as "the world's strongest woman." As his show last week was entering its sixth year for the same sponsor (Skippy Peanut Butter), You Asked's cameras interviewed the dietician for San Diego's zoo, poked into an exhibition of whipcracking and sharpshooting, covered a test cracking of office safes and dived with Navy frogmen in action...
...Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...