Word: leche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saved by the Wings. The first challenge came from ambitious Juan Lechín, the leftist Vice President, who has been at loggerheads with Paz ever since they rose to power in the 1952 revolution that toppled the Andean country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. Unable to patch up their differences at the ruling M.N.R. party convention in January, Paz had himself nominated for another term as President, while Lechín was drummed out of the party. Then Lechín called a rump convention at which he tried to rig an anti-Paz alliance of Communists...
Replacing Lechín on the M.N.R. ticket stirred up an unexpected storm. Paz hand-picked lackluster Senate President Federico Fortún Sanjinés as his new running mate, thereby offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot...
Egon Zimmermann, 23, never took a skiing lesson in his life. Born in the Tyrolean resort of Lech am Arlberg, he picked up free pointers by watching rich tourists practice stem Christies on the slopes around the Zimmermann family inn. Packed off to Paris' ritzy Ledoyen restaurant at 15 to learn the art of French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer...