Word: gutierrez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every 100 male cancer victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
...millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions ran a gas station, the other a bakery. Pepe Castro shined shoes in the Plaza de Armas...
...attempt on the life of Acting President Tomás Monje Gutierrez touched it off. Just before noon a demented young ex-officer named Luis Oblitas rushed into the Presidential Palace, clubbed the secretary, leveled his gun at the President and shouted, "I'm going to be President...
Outside, in the Plaza Murillo, where last July a mob lynched Dictator Villarroel, the news rapidly drew a crowd that swelled to 80,000. They seized Oblitas as police questioned him, propelled him across the square to a lamppost. There, while President Gutierrez shouted from his balcony, "My life is unimportant," they shot, then hanged Oblitas...
Tossed into the Bolivian broth last fortnight was white-haired, sexagenarian Judge Tomás Monje Gutierrez, a political moderate who took over as President of the junta. From a window of the presidential palace that overlooked the Villarroel lamppost, he delivered his inaugural speech. Said he, "Whenever you people get tired of me, let me know so that I can go away." Apparently he meant what he said. Last week the junta decreed national elections next January for a permanent President and congress...