Word: lix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment, Perón at last decided to act. Into the ministerial chair slipped Lawyer Ildefonso Félix Cavagna Martínez, 50, lately a special ambassador charged with working out Perón's proposed economic hookups with neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia...
...garland of new-fangled electric lamps decorating the entrance to the Palais' cellar. When they went down the stairs, they and their escorts found more reason for excitement. On the basement walls hung 990 pictures: oils by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Fėlix Vallotton, a whole wallful of paintings by Paul Gauguin, only six months dead in his Pacific island paradise...
...Baron de Roquette-Buisson, like many of the provincial aristocrats of France, is not noted for generous living. Every year he kills three pigs and ten geese at his château at Saint-Félix. On this, along with whatever can be garnered from the château gardens, his family and retainers must suffice. And so the baron's astonishment rose as bills came rolling in for sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been...
...lix de Lequerica y Erquiza, Ambassador to the U.S. from Spain ............LL.D...
...guests of whom we have thought so much," said Harry Truman, who made no attempt to keep pace with his guest after dark. At week's end, when González' train rolled northward, other Washington bigwigs were red-eyed and exhausted. Chilean Ambassador Félix Nieto del Rio saw his chief off on the 4 p.m. train, then went straight home...