Word: juan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American country had ever seen anything quite like it. Summoned to the presidential villa in the Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos, 161 top officials and military men in President Juan Carlos Onganía's government appeared as ordered and took their seats in the villa's cavernous recreation hall. When everyone had settled down, Ongania walked briskly to a lectern at the front of the room. He fixed his audience with a steely glare...
...makes gripping reading, but it was apparently too much of a fairy tale for New York Times Correspondent Juan de Onis, who claimed there was no evidence linking the CIA to Che's death. It was a fact, reported De Onis, that Che talked freely to a CIA agent shortly before he died. But when Che was finally gunned down by a Bolivian sergeant, the CIA man had gone...
...climax in 1963, when Dulavier ordered the American military mission, a single company of Marines who were training the army in police work, out of the country for "interference" in Haitian politics. A force of Haitian exiles, supported and armed by the new president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch, stood poised on the border. Invasion forces were thought to be arming in Cuba, and a story circulated that Duvalier had reservations on a plane to Paris and was ready to flee the country...
...Airline Pilot Ernest K. Gann, then 42, quit the cockpit for full-time writing (The High and The Mighty, Fate Is the Hunter), now lives a bucolic existence on one of Puget Sound's San Juan Islands and feels sorry for airline pilots who spend all their working lives at it. Gann is now determined to quit writing and try painting, mainly because he loves the challenge of tackling a new subject that he knows nothing about. "It's fear that makes us old," he says. "In a new career, you don't know what...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...