Word: ez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Official Returns. Consternation seized green Miraflores Palace, the seat of the government. Junta Boss Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez used the confusion to shuck off the other two members of the junta, Colonel Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Minister of Interior, and Germán Suarez Flamerich, the mousy professor whom the colonels had propped up as President. After two days, Pérez Jiménez got the signed support of Chief of Staff Felix Moreno, and went on the air to declare himself President. He announced baldly that "correct" election returns gave the government...
...bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast that the junta had "crushed" a countrywide uprising, with gunfights in 16 towns...
...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
...paper's reception room, the group was met by Manuel Constenla, La Prensa's business manager, and Dr. Manuel Ordóñez, its chief counsel. A police official ordered the building cleared and posted guards at the entrances. An editorial employee reported to Editor José Santos Gollan that a United Press messenger carrying cable dispatches had been refused permission to enter. Said Gollan softly: "Send the cables back. We are no longer giving orders here...
...Washington last week, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Colombia's War Minister, told Dean Acheson and George Marshall that his country wished to go further in support of the U.N. cause. Colombia is willing, he said, to raise an entire new division (outfitted with arms to be bought in the U.S.) and make it available to the U.N. for service anywhere, any time. Said Edward Miller, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs: "Another heartening example of Colombia's seriousness of purpose in its foreign relations...