Word: latina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing version of Castro's moves clacked out to other Latin American capitals over the teletypes of Prensa Latina, a new wire service that set up shop in Havana last month after Castro argued that "the international news mo nopolies [i.e., AP and UPI] soy lies and calum nies to weaken our revolution...
Back from Eternity (RKO Radio) is a sort of air-travel poster that looks as if t had been issued by the railroad lobby. As the Aere Pan Latina plane, a beat-up old bimotor, goes whiffling over the Cenral American jungle, the pilot (Robert Ryan) has a black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark...
Last year construction workers digging foundations on the Via Latina, an ancient street branching off the Appian Way, noticed small holes in the earth. The news was passed to the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, which ordered Engineer Mario di Santa Maria to excavate further. Entering through a shaft bored in the ground, he and his colleagues penetrated an elaborate catacomb, but found that all loose objects of value had disappeared. Fact was that the catacomb had been discovered 20 years before, and covered quietly by the landowners to avoid an official veto on building over...