Word: isa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid Southern gentleman. A handsome 30-year-old with a fullback's build, he has a flourishing export-import business in New Orleans. He also has a millionaire father-in-law-hearty, red-faced William Stevens of Miami, a building contractor in Venezuela since the days of President Isaías Medina...
...army gave Venezuela its first democratic government; the army took it away. The military leaders in the "cold coup" last week were the same officers who had ousted Dictator-President Isaías Medina Angarita in 1945, opening the way for last year's popular election of President Rómulo Gallegos...
Furia (Italian). A refreshingly candid, rather steamy, essentially adolescent film about rural adultery, with good work by Isa Pola as the frankest movie temptress in years. Earnest, but overrated by those who think that the Italians (Open City, Shoe Shine, etc.) can do no wrong...
Many of these 35-odd items could be blown up into full-size news stories, but our editors feel that when a man everybody knows gets married, or a woman whose name isa household term has a baby, etc., a brief recording of these events is all you want to know. They are a part of the condensation which permits TIME to tell as much of the week's news as it is possible to tell...
...planned. At four o'clock one afternoon a group of young Army officers revolted in Caracas' San Carlos barracks. By nine o'clock they had forced their way into the strategic Escuela Militar (military school) and Miraflores Palace, the Presidential residence. They had also captured President Isaías Medina Angarita...