Word: grans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...join his anti-Somoza movement. As the crowd's mood grew uglier, troops moved in with rifle butts and bayonets. Before long, both sides were shooting. The highly emotional Aguero and 1,200 of his followers, mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including 89 Americans. For 24 hours, Nicaraguan army machine-gun and rifle fire slapped against the hotel's faded green stucco walls. The total death toll was four guardsmen and 60 civilian rebels. None of the foreigners were killed...
...construction bank, and a $1,000,000 loan request to the Inter-American Development Bank to set up a cooperative bank among his credit unions. Such cares tend to affect a man's point of view. To a friend who recently saw him checking into Lima's Gran Hotel Bolivar, the capitalist priest explained that he "had to get away from the brothers. Those guys were keeping me awake all night arguing theology...
Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...spite of his spectacular spending and steady success in the oilfields, Mecom is conservative enough to hedge his bets with other investments. He bought half of the new San Francisco Hilton for $14.5 million, has spent another $10.4 million on the Warwick Hotel in Houston, owns the 425-room Gran Hotel Bolivar in Lima, Peru. He also controls a New Jersey company that turns out the fast-selling Boonton plastic tableware. Another holding: Houston's Reed Roller Bit Co., which Mecom hopes eventually to make into an oil-equipment supply company rivaling the Hughes Tool Co. Most...
...race, and at 50 laps tense Cobra pitmen watched four Ferrari prototypes scream past the yellow trackside pylons, locked in the lead. But behind them on Sebring's blazing 100° track boomed a blue Cobra coupe followed by two open cockpit Cobra roadsters. Not a single Ferrari Gran Turismo went by among the first ten cars...