Word: marly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal leaders listened to the King's message in the Salle des Maréchaux at the Defense Ministry. They sat around a horseshoe table nibbling tea biscuits, and after half an hour announced their acceptance "in principle." But, they cautioned, the message "will require certain clarifications and declarations...
...piece of the Antarctic, crash-dived in a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso, and tipped over and nearly lost his life canoeing on a south Chilean river. He loves flying, is known all over Chile as "Don Gavion." On a typical weekend at his summer palace at oceanside Vina del Mar, Gonzalez gets in a three-hour canter, a couple of swims, an hour or two at the piano (his current favorite: Brahms), and all the tennis there is time...
...María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only child of Dictator Francisco Franco, became the Marquesa de Villaverde in one of the flossiest weddings that Spain had seen in years. Wearing a Balenciaga faille gown, with a veil sweeping down from a diamond and pearl diadem, the willowy brunette bride marched up the aisle of the Royal Chapel, of El Pardo Palace to face Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Roman Catholic Primate of Spain. Standing beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order...
...blacklist). He dreamed and labored for the day when Mexico would break relations with the impotent republican exile regime and recognize Franco Spain. He got many anonymous telephone calls threatening him with death if he did not stop his negotiations. He told his friend, Mexico's Archbishop Luis María Martinez, about the threats, begged the archbishop to say a funeral mass for him if he were killed. He also wrote to a friend in Spain, asked him to send a pistol by air express. It did not arrive in time...
...their wealth, Doña María's family owned no suitable cemetery plot in Buenos Aires, and were forced to borrow a vault temporarily. Last week they were still looking for a permanent resting place for Doña Mar...