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...Jorge Gamboa de Buen--by Jorge Buen,architect and chief city planner, Mexico City.Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...which stores water used to raise and lower ships in the canal's locks, and seized control of the electrical distribution center at Cerro Tigre. The task force encountered stiff resistance from a P.D.F. naval infantry unit on the northern coast. This force also freed 48 P.D.F. prisoners at Gamboa prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Dragon's Teeth | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...support still amounted to a landslide. Perhaps. But disaffected military officers have been implicated in both of the coup attempts staged against Aquino in July and November. The vote clearly indicated that a sizable block within the armed . forces continues to oppose her. Admitted Deputy Defense Minister Wilson Gamboa: "This reveals that the military continues to be disappointed with the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: The Sweet, Sweet Taste of Victory | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...climb to prominence-to being a folk hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...first, set out to do El Lider's bidding armed mainly with cans of gasoline. Gaily yelling "Perón! Perón!'', they broke into the empty headquarters of the Socialist Party and set it afire. Spectators, among them Police Chief Miguel Gamboa, gathered to watch the blaze. The arsonists, now a hundred strong, moved on to Radical Party offices and set them ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Night of Fire | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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