Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years ago, Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, now President of Ecuador, tried to learn accounting in a humble government job. His boss, according to an Ecuador legend, put him in charge of the petty-cash box. "Look," he said. "On this page, the credit side, write down everything that comes in. On the other page, the debit side, write everything that goes...
...Diligent! Quintuplets* - Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Cristina, Maria Fernanda and Franco-emerged with a scrubbed-face bang from their well-preserved privacy. Occasion: their second birthday, energetically celebrated (see cut) at their home in Buenos Aires...
...Diego Maria Conception Juan Nepo-muceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 58, better known as Painter Diego Rivera, glorified revolution in his murals. Now he turns out rousing nudes for night-club walls, and full-length appreciations of Mexican society beauties. Through Excelsior's columnist Tibon, Rivera recently revealed an earlier devotion to women which was even more consuming...
Columbia, 3 sides) is flashier and brasher but not as satisfying as Jesus Maria Sanroma's with the Boston "Pops" Orchestra (Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor, 3 sides...
Soon after the world's best-known painting was finished (1498), rumors got around that it had been painted not in tempera (egg-white base) but in oils. As the years passed, the huge fresco on the refectory wall of Milan's convent church, Santa Maria delle Grazie, mildewed, flaked and scaled. The experts, who kept trying to patch up the painting with secret preparations of glues and varnishes, did it almost as much damage as time and weather...