Word: ora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Spanish Town. It has reached this state of supercharged development through a process as astonishing as a Cecil B. DeMille production. Los Angeles began life in 1781 as the Spanish pueblo of Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula -a comatose village of 44 souls, surrounded by arid plains and arid mountains. It dozed for a century, hardly opening an eye when four square Spanish leagues of its dusty ground was incorporated into a U.S. city...
...questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper [Se-ñora Perón's Democracia...
...Ambassador Bruce and U.S. Counselor Guy Ray met with Perón and discussed the banning of TIME. No decision was reached. A week later Johnson and Peron had a long talk about "attacks" on Señora Perón, etc., and the President promised to take up the ban with his minister in charge of customs. He said that it would take some time to straighten things...
Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
Lockout. What, Argentines wondered, had become of la Señora's reported vendetta with the Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...