Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Privy Council. Franco appears to have submitted practically all of Spain's economy to the hands of Opus Dei. Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, Minister of Commerce Faustino Garcia-Monco, Minister of Industry Gregorio López Bravo, Central Bank Governor Mariano Navarro Rubio and Ambassador to the Common Market Alberto Ullástres are all members. Spain's sixth largest private bank (Banco Popular Espaňol) is owned almost solely by Opus Dei members, and they reportedly control 13 other banks and insurance companies, 16 real estate and construction firms...
...eleven hours one day last week, Philippine Constabulary troopers nervously ringed a low frame house in the town of Mabalacat, 55 miles northwest of Manila. Finally, an officer arrived with a search warrant. What the Con stabulary found inside was worth waiting for: shadowy Dominador Garcia, 34, alias Commander Ely, the No. 3 man in the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,-the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks. Garcia surrendered without a fight...
Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the heroine Yerma (Gloria Foster) yearns publicly and privately to have a baby. The playgoer comes out of this hot bathos convinced that this Spanish , town could certainly use an adoption agency...
...Until 18 months ago, Leo Carter's job was to sweep, mop and polish the floors at Miami Beach's St. Francis Hospital. Today, as proprietor of The Best Floor Waxing Service, he is an entrepreneur with six employees. Mexican-born Joe Garcia, on relief in Manhattan eight months ago, now takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service...
...jungles and killed them without quarter; defectors were offered land in islands not infested by Huks. By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency. Then in 1957, Magsaysay died in a plane crash, and the government passed into the hands of yet another weakling, Carlos Garcia...