Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting cast is of varying quality, but no one in it is less than adequate. Jerome Kilty gives a good greasy performance in the double role of the pseudo-romantic brigand Mendoza and "that strange monster called a devil." If Mr. Kilty's Devil is put in the shade by the definitive performance of Charles Laughton, it still has excellences...
...election of twelve provincial legislators in wine-and petroleum-producing Mendoza a fortnight ago measured the fall of Frondizi's popularity: his party lost every seat that it had held. President Frondizi is booed in the newsreels, jeered at on public occasions, disliked by even a large portion of his own party. But he plunges grimly on: "A lowering of the standard of living of Argentines is inevitable during the next two years. It is impossible to continue consuming more than is produced...
RAMON GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA...
...across polished desks in Havana, New York and Caracas, gathering money from rich friends, channeling it to the international arms dealers who ran guns to Castro. Last week some of these men were coming to the surface: Economist Rufo Lopez Fresquet, a main channel for rebel money; Broker Ignacio Mendoza, who hid hot rebels in his rich Havana home; Julio Duarte, secretary of the Cuban Bar Association and a top rebel organizer; "Comandante Diego," a still-unidentified rebel who bossed Havana saboteurs...
...wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...