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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting scant sympathy. More than 92,000 unpaid schoolteachers and clerks and 18,000 employees of Colombia's judiciary system were on strike last week, and 45 major unions have called a general strike for Oct. 1. Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmezmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President's invitation to be Minister of Public Works in the new Cabinet. "What in the world could I accomplish in the nine months before elections?" he asked. "I'm a serious person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Permanently on the Defense | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...career. At least such is the case of a tall Welsh lass named Gwyneth Jones. A year and a half ago she was a so-so mezzo, beset with a special problem: "My voice just kept going up and up." Why fight it, she thought. So presto change, the mez zo became a soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Presto Change | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Born. To King Simeon II, 27, King of Bulgaria deposed by the Communists, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 28, toast of Madrid society: their second son; in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Enemy. One of the inner-circle leaders of the F.A.L.N. is Gus tavo Machado, 65, chief of the Venezuelan Communist Party and federal Deputy from Caracas. The rebellious son of wealthy parents, Machado spent two student years in jail for opposing Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: With Impunity & Immunity | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Born. To King Simeon II, 25, King of Bulgaria, who was deposed from his throne at the age of nine by the Communists after World War II, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 26, jet-haired light of Madrid's aristocratic high life: their first child, a boy; in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 14, 1962 | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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