Word: ez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...small businesses (grain brokerage, real estate) and became the U.S. consular agent in the chaotic days following the 1910 revolution. His financial talents were frustrated by a shortage of funds until he had a fortunate stroke of bad luck. In 1920 Jenkins was kidnaped by General Manuel Peláez, one of the bandit enemies of then-President Venustiano Carranza, and held for $25,000 ransom. Rather than offend the intervention-prone U.S., Carranza paid off- and through an unlikely stroke of generosity on General Pelÿez' part, Jenkins is said to have received half of the booty...
...face dropped when local newsstands suddenly blossomed with a Spanish edition of LIFE that contained the first installment of The Dangerous Summer, the account by grizzled Aficionado Ernest Hemingway of Dominguín's perilous rivalry with his brother-in-law, Matador Antonio Ordóñez, on the Spanish bullfighting circuit during the summer of 1959. Forewarned that Hemingway was setting him up for a critical clobbering by comparison with Ordóñez, Dominguín had already made his reply. Said he in Spain's weekly Gaceta Illustrada: "Hemingway considers himself an expert. Perhaps...
...replace Lemus the moderates chose a six-man junta: three army officers, three civilians. Colonel Miguel Angel Castillo, at 44 the oldest junta member, was customs-guard chief under Lemus; Colonel César Yáñez Urias. 40, was a key officer at San Carlos Fort, where the country's ammunition is kept; Major Rubén Alonso Rosales, 35, shared in command of El Zapote Fort overlooking the presidential palace, where the army stored most of its weapons. The civilians-Dr. Fabio Castillo, 42, and Lawyers René Fortin Magaña, 29, and Ricardo Falla...
After Yeats. "Old Ez," as he calls himself, has spent so many years in voluntary exile-London, Paris, Rapallo-that it is easy to forget him as an American. His ancestors came over on the same boat as Roger Williams. Two hundred of them fought in the Revolutionary War, and the towns of Weston in Massachusetts and Connecticut are named after them. Ezra was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, grew up in Wyncote, Pa., attended Hamilton College, and got an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He had sound taste even then. At 18, he told his friend William...