Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria, a new agrarian-reform project where 25,000 settlers will soon dwell. Off in the distance in the fertile Huallaga River Valley was Tarapoto, which now boasts the biggest cargo airport in Peru, after Lima...
...talk is of sugar prices and the new timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo Club; the Phil-Am Life Insurance Co., with its filigreed, high-pillared headquarters...
Born. To Anna Maria Alberghetti, 30, onetime opera singer (The Medium) turned musical-comedy star (Carnival), and Claudio Guzman, 39, Chilean-born TV director (I Dream of Jeannie, Love on a Rooftop); their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles...
...Married. Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star; and Veit Relin (real name: Franz Pichler), 40, avant-garde theater director and father of her three-monthold daughter; both for the second time; in Reitmehring, Germany...
...ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru...