Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light aircraft, there is no more pleasant flight than the 299-mile run from San Diego to Phoenix. Soaring high above the saffron badlands and khaki peaks that bake beneath a searing sun, skirting the Mexican border, a man can make it easily in four hours...
With five hours' fuel aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
...self-propelled crossing of the English Channel, Marathon Swimmer Florence Chadwick, 36, of San Diego, set a new speed record, splashing ashore in France 13 hr., 55 min. after leaving England. Her time was eleven minutes faster than the record set in August by English Swimmer Bill Pickering...
Marriage Revealed. Diego Rivera, 69, famed Mexican mural painter; and Emma Hurtado, 39, dancer-model; he for the fifth time, she for the second; on July 29, as he made ready to leave for Russia for a cancer operation; in Mexico City...
Mexico's bittersweet, May-and-December romance between famed, four-times-married Artist Diego Rivera, 68, and sultry, four-times-married Cinemactress Maria Felix, 37, flared fitfully. Recently, when Maria returned by plane to Mexico from Havana, she was clutched in a passionate deathlock by the panting master, was whisked through Lover Rivera's standard regimen of courtship: a daily bouquet of red roses, frenzied cha-cha-cha dancing in flossy nightclubs, morning excursions to the lady's balcony with laired serenaders. But one day last week Diego Rivera landed in a hospital. Mexico City editors began...