Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emblazoned on the smokestacks of dozens of ships around the world is a huge white N. It does not, as landlubbers might think, stand for Nicaragua or The Netherlands but for Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 46, a short (5 ft. 7 in.), slim citizen of Greece whose private merchant fleet is bigger than the navies of Nicaragua and The Netherlands combined. Niarchos. whose name means "master of ships," claims to be the world's biggest independent shipowner, with some 1.600,000 tons afloat and abuilding (v. Moore-McCormack's 400,000 tons). Though he has launched more ships than...
Packing a dictator-size revolver in a belly-gun holster, Nicaragua's slang-slinging Despot Anastasio Somoza struck a benign pose as he proudly surveyed one of his pet projects, Port Somoza, now abuilding on Nicaragua's sultry Pacific coast...
...sweltering Nicaragua, Tacho Somoza readied a modest house on his cattle and cotton ranch, which overlooks the Pacific, for Peron. "He will be my house guest," said Tacho. "I might even give him a chance to do some work with a pick and shovel." But there were hints that Tacho, too, hoped that discredited Juan Peron would soon move on again...
...inaugurated as president on June 19, 1933, and has received honorary degrees from more than 20 colleges and universities. He has also served as a special consultant to Nicaragua and Cuba...
...writing checks with them (forgers could literally pick up a transfer of a signature); schoolteachers banned them; and retailers were swamped with complaints. But Pat Frawley was full of confidence-and with good reason. At 16 he was a salesman for his father's export-import business in Nicaragua; at 18 he negotiated a $300,000 deal between Panama and U.S. Rubber. At 23 he built a flourishing export-import business in San Francisco...