Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this argument leaves most of the tenants unconvinced. Immediately after eviction notices arrived several weeks ago, an informal committee of tenants sprung up, headed by Mrs. Maria Kimball, an 80-year-old (but energetically young) warhorse with years of personal and inherited political experience. Descended from Governor Bradford, Samuel Holten, (Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress of 1778), and other colonial leaders, she herself has served as president of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, chairman of the Danvers School Board, chairman of the Massachusetts Women's Committee at the New York World's Fair, and president...
...Viva Portugal! Viva Salazar!" roared the crowd of 80,000 jamming the dock area in Lisbon. Jet fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...
Even aging Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga...
...Portugal itself, aging but agile Dictator António Salazar was having trouble with his own aftermath of the Santa Maria. He decided to allow people to let off a little steam. Newspaper editors in Oporto and Lisbon were given permission to publish an open letter addressed to the government by three opposition leaders. "Speaking in the name of many we know," the petition asked for "a government capable of inspiring the confidence of the country," and demanded "restitution to the Portuguese of their fundamental liberties-those same liberties which the constitution promises and which have become, to our regret...
Born. To Henri, Count of Clermont, 27, pipe-smoking son of the Count of Paris, who is pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg: their second child, first son and third in line in a succession reaching back to 888, when Eudes became King of France; in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Name: Francois Henri Louis Marie de France...