Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chileans rode trains from the capital's hot streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
...coverage marked the TV debut of Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson. Both kept their noses in their scripts and their balding heads under hats. Winchell displayed his usual talent for saying nothing at all with the strident urgency of Gabriel trumpeting Judgment Day. Pearson repaired to a phone from time to time and returned to dispense "inside" dope which was not particularly informative, but had a lively jangle. The real ABC sparkplug-and TV's top election reporter -was white-haired Elmer Davis, who spoke extemporaneously, generally made sense and radiated authority...
Though Chile's Communist Party had been outlawed since September, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was still worried about the mischief Communists might do in his country. Last week, to "prevent possible Communist crimes," he asked Congress to extend for another six months his emergency power to imprison individuals without trial. By a well-timed coincidence, Gonzalez' police has just arrested 21 Communist labor leaders in Concepcion, and seized documents purportedly proving that the 21 were cooking up ways to sabotage a steel mill, copper, coal and nitrate mines...
Last week, satisfied that only a little more prodding by the President was necessary to get the suffrage bill passed, Mitty went back to her correspondence. "Luckily," says she, "I have never had to persuade my husband on the suffrage issue. Gabriel has always been convinced...