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...going to quibble? Certainly nobody in South Florida, where residents are suddenly gaga over Bo(nilla), Co(nine) and Mo(ises Alou), and where readers of the Miami Herald were treated to a Wednesday, Oct. 15, front page devoted entirely to the Marlins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISH ARE JUMPIN' | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Lost Contact. The real winner was former Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pi-nilla, 66, a general who came to power with the aid of the military in 1953 as their unsuccessful candidate to end the vendetta and was removed by the military in 1957, after having disgusted Colombia with censorship and pilfering of public funds. Last week, though ignored throughout the campaign by TV and press, and personally forbidden to run, Rojas had the satisfaction of seeing his ANAPO party win half a million votes, 18% of the total-making him the unofficial and highly embarrassing leader of the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: A Threat of Daggers | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Political murder, the scourge of Colombia, is on the rise again. Last week alone, there were eight killings; there have been more than 100 since last June, when Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pi-nilla seized the presidency of Colombia and promised "no more bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Habit of Murder | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Gustavo Rojas Pi-nilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,SQUALLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,OBIT,OTHER EVENTS,SJPEli it OUf: (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID-OCTOBER 1953) | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Born. To Nilla Shiles Putnam, 30; and Air Forces Lieut. David Binney Putnam, 29, onetime boy explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, etc.), stepson of the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: their third child, first son, David Binney Jr.; in Fort Pierce, Fla. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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