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Word: josefa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week New York's Mayor John Lindsay appointed two young trustees to the city's board of higher education, which governs New York's 19-campus City University. Maria Josefa Canino, 25, the daughter of a Puerto Rican grocer, is a seasoned Harlem social worker and the youngest person ever named to the board. Jean-Louis d'Heilly, 28, is a doctoral candidate in political science at City University. Last winter he organized a huge demonstration to protest cuts in the university's funds, a move that deeply impressed Lindsay. The new appointments, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Trustees Under 30 | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...tripped prettily off Viasa Flight 737 with her fiancé, and was walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The New Strategy | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Julie is a chambermaid (Josefa) who is found in the nude (her favorite outfit) and unconscious, with only one accessory, a revolver. Beside her lies the dead body of her lover, a Spanish chauffeur who used to beat her "but never when he was drinking." They both worked for an aristocratic Paris banking family, the Beaurevers; the magistrate, influenced by Beaurevers' power, is all for clapping the girl in jail, case unheard. But his young assistant (William Shatner), fired with ideals of justice, insists on investigating. What ensues, in judicial quarters of dilapidated grandeur, is an intimately candid inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slight Case of Murder | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...knew of his affair with the bad-tempered Queen, for it was the talk of Europe. And there was also the rumor that Godoy had already been secretly married to another of his mistresses, Dona Josefa Tudo, known in the streets as Pepita, the flirtatious daughter of a penniless artillery officer. At public dinners Godoy scandalized even Madrid's jaded courtiers by forcing his wife to sit next to his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sad-Eyed Countess | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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