Word: javier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yankee Dollars. In Maracaibo, Venezuela, Javier Gonzalez' dentist grabbed him on the street, took back the gold teeth Javier had not paid...
...Died. Javier Pereira, longtime (according to him: since 1789) aboriginal resident of Colombia, generally considered the oldest man on earth; in Monteria, Colombia. Physicians at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was taken for examination in 1956, said that the little (4 ft. 4 in., 75 Ibs.) cigar-smoking Indian might "possibly [have been] more than 150 years old." During his only trip away from home, Pereira made passes at an airline stewardess, socked reporters and others who annoyed him. After the trip, the government of Colombia issued a Pereira postage stamp with the motto...
...group of students than Economist Wayne M.c-Naughton of U.C.L.A. Attending his course on all-round American-style executivemanship at Madrid's School of Industrial Organization were some of Spain's most prominent businessmen and politicians, e.g., Lawyer Buenaventura Fernandez Crehuet, member of the Cortes, and Dr. Francisco Javier Fernandez Avila, brother of the director of the government's Industrial Productivity Commission. Though he had to work through an interpreter, McNaughton thought he was getting along just fine-until one day he decided to give the class a test...
...Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
...ridiculous," replied Dr. Javier Romero, anthropologist at Mexico's National Museum. "True, Cortés' legs were slightly bowed, as are those of most habitual horsemen, but it is impossible to determine from the skull whether the man was balding, whiskered, cross-eyed and humpbacked...