Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financial condition, as now legally required of retiring presidents. He began: "I, Rómulo Betancourt, newspaperman; declare under oath that I possess no real-estate assets of any kind." Then he listed everything he owned: a few shares in the newspaper El Páis, a share in Los Cortijos (a recreation club), a 1947 Mercury, several suits of formal clothes. Total value: 17,000 Bs (bolivars, equaling $5,100). His debts: 4,156 Bs owed to his tailors; 1,200 still to be paid on the Mercury, and 10,500 borrowed from the Bank of Caracas. Total debts...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
...Southern Californians, the first 8,000 miles of barnstorming by Bobby Riggs and Big Jake Kramer didn't count. The real test was how well they did at home (both come from the Los Angeles area). Last week in Los Angeles, 6,529 jurors, including Donald Budge, Bill Tilden, the Bogarts and the Durochers, watched cocky little Bobby Riggs tear into Big Jake...
...Last week, the Strayer report urged California to start three new four-year colleges, eight new junior colleges (present total: 55), expand courses at two of the eight University of California campuses, but set a limit of 20,000 students apiece on the two big ones (Berkeley and Los Angeles). President Robert Gordon Sproul, the big man on all eight campuses, had his way on one important point. The commission told the little colleges to leave advanced and professional education...
...York City. 4. Boston. 2. Chicago. 5. San Francisco. 3. Los Angeles...