Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three AT6 patrol planes out of the sky, and have blown up roads, bridges and trucks. One night, they reportedly raided and looted an armory 38 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince, then two days later sacked another military post 20 miles away. Haitians crossing over into the neighboring Dominican Republic say that the rebels effectively control half a dozen villages in the rugged Massif de la Selle...
...soft-spoken former French Dominican, Pierre Hermand, 44, thinks that priests should have the choice of being celibate or marrying, if they wish to do so. Last year he left the Dominican order and in defiance of the church authorities published his arguments in a book called The Priestly State - Marriage or Celibacy? Recalling the early days of solitude in Aix-en-Provence, after having torn himself from the only life that was his since boyhood, he said: "I walked the windswept streets making the unconscious gesture of touching my new suit, feeling for the robe that was no longer...
...Party and a history of dark horses; Harvard Historian and ex-White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has an essay on John F. Kennedy, to whom the book is dedicated; bouncy blonde Hearstwriter Marianne Means discusses famous First Ladies; Freelancer John Bartlow Martin, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic under Kennedy, has turned out a piece on the Kennedy record...
...many as seven Negro and Latin American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose Pagán for Ed Bressoud at shortstop, Dominican Jesus Alou for Harvey Kuenn in rightfield...
...adopted the still-popular British stance of doing business with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome de las Casas, the Dominican "Protector of the Indians.") In 1913, Rebel Leader Pancho Villa raided the bank's Torreón branch and took more than 150,000 pesos; later that year the revolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta robbed the Durango branch of 100,000 pesos. A few years later, when the bank...