Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CAMPESINO: LIFE AND DEATH IN SOVIET RUSSIA (218 pp.)-Valentín González and Julian Gorkin-Putnam...
Valentín González, a fiery, black-bearded Spaniard, was once a Communist hero -and why not? The man had all the makings : 1) he was a landlord-hating peasant who could kill an enemy and sleep soundly afterwards; 2) he was a fine troop commander, a tough, natural leader who became a living legend during the Spanish civil war; 3) he was a Communist...
...first voters trooped to polling places to elect Guatemala City's mayor, Humberto Gonzalez Juárez, the official candidate, foresightedly stocked up on Scotch for a victory party. That he might lose was scarcely thinkable; Gonz...
...voting, under Guatemalan law, went on for three days. But last week, after the National Election Board had counted the ballots, González Juárez called off his party. He had been trounced. The winner, by 24,466 votes to 19,306, was Juan Luis Lizarralde (TIME...
...start of the race, Jose Estrada, a prosperous Mexico City auto dealer and a veteran racer, announced: "I will win, or die trying." On the first lap, his 1951 Packard screeched off the road and tumbled 630 feet down into a ravine. Both Estrada and Co-Driver Miguel González died in a Oaxaca hospital that afternoon. Next day Carlos Panini, wealthy Italian-born founder of Mexico's first scheduled airline (Aerovias Panini), was killed when his Alfa Romeo skidded into a field and turned over...