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...Panamanian secessionist who would soon become the first president of Panama, Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero, met with Bunau-Varilla in room 1162 of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Sept. 24, 1903. Bunau-Varilla later called that room "the cradle of the Panama republic." The frail, bespectacled Amador wanted assurance that the U.S. would support a Panamanian revolution. Bunau-Varilla left for Washington to put the question to Roosevelt. The Frenchman received "no assurances," Roosevelt said later, but the President added: "He is a very able fellow, and it was his business to find out what...
...friends and young relatives tearfully embraced the frail old man last week hardly able to believe that he was still alive. Most of Cercedilla's villagers however, are too young to remember the war, and to them Montalvo's reappearance was strange and almost incomprehensible, part of a Spanish past they never knew. Said Mayor Enrique Espinosa, who was born a month after Montalvo's ordeal began: "I embraced him and told him we all are glad to have him back among us, and he just kept saying Gracias, gracias, gracias.' We will never know what...
...size and strength to muscle them out of expansion-team doldrums and into the joyful world of N.B.A. contenders. Instead, they had to suffer with an injury-bedeviled vegetarian who contributed mightily to their abysmal won-lost record-the worst in the West last year-and apparently was too frail, physically and mentally, to play with the pros...
...Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail and gaunt in his wheelchair, he made some appropriate ad lib remarks in a thin, reedy voice and promised his audience to get well and hike again "the whole distance...
Aeroflot Flight SU 297 from Moscow was slightly ahead of schedule. The blue and white, three-engine Tupolev 154 taxied to a stop on the tarmac some 200 yards from the main terminal at Madrid's Ba rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...