Word: nicolal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wardrobe. She asked the Franco authorities for a passport, saying she wanted to go to Paris and "buy a few dresses." She tried to help her cause by making the rounds of Madrid's gay spots with the pudgy dictator's pudgy, pleasure-loving brother, Nicolás Franco, who is Ambassador to Portugal. But within a few days of the Duchess' request for a passport, police were quick to note, a letter from Don Juan reached Francisco Franco asking the dictator to step down for the sake of "our common country...
...passport was forthcoming. Not even brother Nicolás could do anything. Last week, Luisa María canceled her travel plans and said philosophically: "Never mind. It won't be long before I'll be traveling on a diplomatic passport signed by a minister of the king. My only regret is that I wasted time dancing with that fat, perspiring...
Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...
...Peroón government recalled three of its diplomatic representatives from the U.S. last week. They were Heavyweight Boxer César Brión, Lightweight Boxer José Gatica and Gatica's manager, Nicolás Preziosaall auxiliary consular officers of the 6th grade, attached to the New York consulate...
Like New Yorkers, habaneros worry about their water supply. Long a perplexing problem because of Havana's never-ceasing growth and the difficulties of piping it into town, the shortage of water led Mayor Fernández Supervielle to suicide three years ago. His successor Nicolás Castellanos, former president of the city council, refused to despair. Energetically he built up the city's reservoirs. Last week a grateful citizenry elected Castellanos mayor in his own right...