Word: nicas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
...clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...
...shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...
This blanket conservatism was proper enough. But it understated the long-term outlook for some of the company's juiciest properties. I.T. & T. has poured $62,000,000 into Compañia Telefónica Nacional de Españia, famed in the Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably...