Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
...storm and tension of emotions between old friends who had become bitter enemies. And in the thunder echoed such words as frame-up, dishonesty, fraud and concocted perjury." Thus, in London, did a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords describe the bitter lawsuit involving Maria Callas and two Greek shipowners, Aristotle Onassis and Panaghis Vergottis. At stake was 51% of the shares in a $3,000,000 freighter that Maria said the men had given her as a token of friendship that was to provide for her old age. Onassis never questioned his part...
...party celebrating the 75th anniversary of Maxim's in Paris, Diva Maria Callas was reported to have remarked: "She did well, Jacqueline, to give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators were still disproportionately distressed, like the Italian columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways...
Died. Dom Aurelio Maria Escarre, 60, Catalan monk, who for 24 years as Abbot of Montserrat scrapped with the Franco regime until the government forced him into retirement three years ago; of a liver and kidney disease; in Barcelona. Dom Aurelio castigated the government for "not obeying the basic principles of Christianity," and turned Montserrat into a sanctuary, often protecting those sought by Franco's police...
Paris was packed for the premiere of the new Rex Harrison film, A Flea in Her Ear with a lengthy list of notables including Maria Callas, Dewi Sukarno, and, of course, Dick and Liz. An aspiring young French actress like Geneviève Gilles, 20, would ordinarily be lost in that flashy crowd. But Geneviève arrived on the arm of Darryl F. Zanuck, 66, who has promoted the careers of such stars as Bella Darvi, Juliette Greco and Irina Demick. And Zanuck has already made Geneviève something of a star. He directed the 23-minute short...