Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Message from Garcia. In 1962 the Russians found an ideal student for their French teacher. Vasily Vlasov, first secretary in the Soviet embassy, clucked sympathetically at Paāques' revelations of "the aggressive intentions of the United States," urged Paâques to turn down a job in French counterespionage in favor of one on NATO's information staff...
FIVE PLAYS, by Federico Garcia Lorca...
FIVE PLAYS by Federico Garcia Lorca. 246 pages. New Directions...
Early one morning in the summer of 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca was taken to a field outside the old Moorish city of Granada and shot by a Falangist firing squad. This was ordered, it now seems possible, not because Lorca had any political affiliations but because Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, the Socialist mayor of Granada, was his brother-in-law. His death was a reminder that in the Spain of the time, virtually any consideration could expose a man to a firing squad from either side. Lorca was buried in a shallow, unmarked grave on a hillside beside several thousand other...
...Portsmouth two enterprising bookmakers have announced that they are accepting bets on the sex and names of the royal tots-to-be. George, Mary and Philip are 10-to-l favorites for Elizabeth's baby, but the odds makers are covering all angles. For example, says Bookie Harry Garcia, "we're ready to lay 50,000 to 1 against the Queen-Her Majesty, that is-having a boy and calling him Prince Nikita...