Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curious Islanders. It was a swinging caper. Led by Maria Cristina Verrier, 27, a ye-ye blonde playwright who is a kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured...
...natives were damnably hospitable. They took the plane's 25 nonconspiratorial passengers into their homes, were hurt when Maria Cristina and her troupe refused their hospitality and elected to stay in the plane. The last straw came when the island's tiny police force politely informed the conspirators that it was against the law to arrest the police chief or capture public buildings. Dismayed, the invaders finally gave themselves up and accepted beds in Port Stanley homes...
...aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, whose variations on the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. Amid the howls of "Adolf Bing!" and "Prussian dictator" Bing remained serene. "I will run this house," he said, "on the principle of quality and quality alone." In 1958, when Maria Callas refused to sing the roles in the sequence that Bing had assigned her, he summarily dismissed her, touching off an international cause celebre. (Bing later hung a photograph in his office showing himself and the celebrated diva kissing, with the caption: "Darling!" "You're fired...
...frail tykes born two months premature, Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets have developed into quite a gang. "They are terrible," groaned Mamá Inés Maria Cuervo de Prieto as the five boys celebrated their third birthday with the neighbor children in Maracaibo. "Anyone who stays with them for more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest...
...biggest stars failed to show up for one reason or another. Russia's Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, who between them own four world records (and are known to their competitors as "the Press brothers") stayed home to care for their sick mother. Russian Runners Tatiana Schelkanova and Maria Itkina were side lined with undisclosed injuries. Rumania's towering (6 ft. ½ in.) Iolanda Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing an Ace bandage. She was, according to Rumanian track officials, suffering from...