Word: mar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the huge, government-owned casino at fashionable Mar del Plata is the world's largest, it is just as vulnerable as any other gambling house to that once-in-a-million bogeyman, the little gambler with a system that really works. Last week Mar del Plata had to call in the police to help them get rid of a horrifying 30 steady customers, who seemed to have found the dread formula for winning...
...certain enough of his system to train four assistants and shift operations to Mar del Plata. There the pupils soon shoved the master into the background and formed syndicates of their own. The worried management alerted the croupiers to keep records on the growing number of consistent winners. By last year the losings to the new syndicates were so high that the casino director was fired...
Curly & Johnny. But that did not cure the trouble. The hottest syndicate at Mar del Plata this year was 20 strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly...
...Leslie Coffelt, widow of the Blair House guard killed in the attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican Nationalists last November, flew to Puerto Rico last week. There she received from the hand of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a medal and a gift of $4,816.59, made up of pennies given by Puerto Rican schoolchildren. Said Mrs. Coffelt: "I, like any other American, cannot hate a country for an act committed by one of its citizens. I shall always remember the kindness shown to me by the Puerto Rican people...
Jesuit Father José María Vélaz made sure that his 28 schoolboys went to confession and Communion before they boarded the chartered DC-3 that was to take them to Caracas for the holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...