Word: mez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
Only a few years ago, such a blunt statement would have sent many Latin Americans into bursts of outrage about Yanqui callousness-and Ecuador's interim President, Otto Arosemena Gómez, 41, indeed complained that the U.S. did not offer enough aid. But for the rest of the Latin Americans, who vainly tried to shush Arosemena, Johnson's words hit home. After receiving $9.9 billion in Alliance aid during the past six years, the Latin Americans are beginning to realize that aid alone will not make their problems go away. They are also experiencing a new surge...
...death by a Mexican court. The crime for which he was condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother and one sister were dead, riddled with .22-cal. bullets. Hilda Villagómez...
...hospital, where she survived for 17 days, Hilda described the gunman as a tall, blond, 200-lb. American who had stopped in his southbound car, tried vainly to start the Villagómez car, and started shooting when the youngsters giggled at his failure. He wore a white shirt and dark trousers, she said, had two gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they...
...Mexican judge, U.S. officials drove the demented doctor across the border (after putting him in a straitjacket) and deposited him in a Waco mental hospital. Since released, he is now practicing in Houston. Bullets from his assorted weapons have never been matched against those used in the Villagómez murder, and no solid evidence links him to the Villagómez crime. Nor has any American in living memory ever been extradited to Mexico...