Word: elo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luther King Jr., death came as a tragic finale to an American drama fraught with classic hints of inevitability. Propelled to fame in the throes of the Negro's mid-century revolution, he gave it momentum and steered it toward nonviolence. Yet the movement he served with such elo quence and zeal was beginning to pass him by, and nonviolence to many black militants had come to seem naive, outmoded, even suicidal...
...spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero-to-Miami freedom shuttles that have ferried almost 64,000 refugees from Cuba in the past 17 months. As usual, Castro confiscated all his property and money. "I no have anything except my family and my freedom," said he, "but that...
Quadros graduated into total obscurity. He took half of a 12-ft. by 15-ft. downtown office, read his way through the life of Abraham Lincoln between the occasional shopkeepers and petty crooks who sought his services. He began sharing his dreams of someday becoming somebody with pretty Eloá do Valle, the daughter of one of his father's druggist friends, married her in 1941 after two years of courtship. "He was," she reports, "the ugliest man I ever...
...courtroom did not hold much future for a scrawny fellow with a funny eye. In 1945, when Dictator Getúlio Vargas fell, another way presented itself: politics, where offbeat appearance can sometimes be an advantage. "When he first got the idea, I was very dubious," Eloá says. In his first race, in 1947, he fetched up 47th on the list of candidates for 45 São Paulo city council seats. Only when the Communist Party was outlawed and 14 of the winners were eliminated did Quadros get a seat...
Lincoln & the Americans. Before taking over the governorship in 1955, Quadros made his first trip outside Latin America, a holiday jaunt to Europe and the U.S. with Eloá and his daughter Tutu. In Europe, he fell in love with London ("a man's town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington...