Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week some 4.000 employees of the General Prison Corps gathered in Madrid to toast Jose Maria Herreros de Tejada. retiring after long service as director of Spanish jails. Defending his stewardship against "foreign" critics, Director Herreros proudly announced that in Spain today, "prisoners charged with crimes against the security of the state-otherwise known as political prisoners-who are sentenced, tried and detained, number only 683." About 90% of these prisoners "are held for Communist-type activities," he added, "and the other 10% are fellow travelers." Except for The Netherlands, boasted Herreros, Spain has the lowest per capita number...
...Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
...invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic, finds distasteful*- But at least the Rainiers were spared the embarrassment...
...Farewell to Arms is a kind of modern Romeo and Juliet. Most of the other love stories read like adolescent male fantasies. In Hemingway there are only two kinds of women-the bitches like Margaret Macomber who shoots her husband the moment he displays courage, and the somnambules like Maria, who sleepwalks into Robert Jordan's sleeping bag. Lady Brett Ashley is a special breed, a likable bitch. Ibsen's Nora wanted to be her own woman. Promiscuous, aggressive Brett, with her habit of calling everybody "chap," is both her own woman and her own man, with...
...Brazilian Author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1830-1008) wrote with irony and humor of the Brazilian soul...