Word: nez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. 705 pages. Yale University Press...
Resisting U.S. efforts to move them out of Oregon's Wallowa Valley and resettle them on an Idaho reservation, some 750 Nez Perce men, women and children led by Chief Joseph had staged an incredible 1,700-mile retreat across four states, fighting off 2,000 U.S. troops along the way. Finally, seeking sanctuary in Canada, they were within 35 miles of their goal when they were surrounded, and Chief Joseph decided to surrender. With his surrender, the last major Indian resistance to the encroaching white man in the Northwest was broken...
Outside the hotel in Buenos Aires, an angry crowd chanted, "Death to the tyrant!" Inside, a handsome, dark-haired woman held court for newsmen. She was Isabel Martínez de Perón, 34, third wife of the ex-dictator who, at 70, lives in Spain and insists that he will one day return to Argentina. How was Juan Domingo Perón? asked a reporter. "In excellent health," she replied. And what was she doing back home? "I have come on a mission of peace," smiled Isabel...
Flamenco at Toulouse. Among the sketches in the show are several sly caricatures of Diaghilev, a top hat perched on his balding pate, a pince-nez trailing across his crooked countenance. There is a portrait of the ballerina Koklova, previously seen only by Picasso's intimate friends. Some of the most delightful works are sets and costumes designed for Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, a merry Spanish folk tale replete with flamenco dancers. For the Toulouse Festival, the Paris Opéra reproduced the 1919 costumes, including a coquettish gown that the original first ballerina...
...alert airlines agent tipped off reporters that the Isabel Martínez de Perón, 32, on the manifest was exiled Argentine Dictator Juan Perón's comely blonde wife, and when she landed from Spain at New York's Kennedy airport, the newshounds had her surrounded. She was just changing planes, she cooed, and was on her way for a three-week "vacation" in Asunción, Paraguay. Since sun-scorched little Paraguay is hardly a jet-set spa, rumors buzzed that she was preparing yet another Perón attempt at El Retorno. Peronistas...