Word: gonzalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cards were slowly tallied, Rafael Caldera looked more and more like a jolly green giant. He seemed likely to topple a strong party in power, a rare event in Latin America. Caldera's lead at week's end over Action Candidate Gonzalo Barrios was razor-slim: 40,000 votes with 400,000 yet to be counted. Yet election officials predicted a narrow Caldera victory, although one in which he would have to form a co -alition government...
Outgoing President Raúl Leoni has cut so many ribbons inaugurating public works during the campaign that opponents claim he keeps a pair of scissors in his pocket. Leoni cannot constitutionally succeed himself, but his appearances aid Acción Democrática's candidate. He is Gonzalo Barrios, 65, an adroit and tough politician who, as Interior Minister, put down Venezuela's Castroite rebels...
...last week in Madrid, nature followed art in one man's brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded...
...took a dim view of the lad's fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because I was crazy about the game...
Robert Egan's Alonso was properly measured and sad. Darryl Palmer, as Gonzalo, struck the perfect balance between sanctity and senility. If he's under thirty, his characterization was a masterpiece...