Word: ortizes
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...nights become long, sleepless nightmares; during the day, to the astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant for Sol. In a torrent of long-restrained tears, Sol Nazerman begins the escape from his prison of self...
...state" during the January 1960 anti-De Gaulle uprising in Algiers, only six were found guilty-and all six had already fled to safety in exile. The stiffest in absentia sentences were handed out to the co-leaders of the uprising: death was decreed for burly Barkeeper Joseph Ortiz, chief of the terrorist Front National Français, and ten years' imprisonment for bearded, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde, the ex-paratrooper and student hero at the University of Algiers. A right-wing crowd at court wildly cheered the acquittals and the obvious fact that those found guilty are beyond...
...armed mob, but they had a leadership of sorts (see box). Handsome Pierre Lagaillarde shouted orders to his student followers and strode about, impressive in his paratrooper uniform of camouflage cloth, looking-with his neatly trimmed beard and mustache-like a well-barbered Fidel Castro. Burly, olive-skinned Jo Ortiz led the slum contingents instead of setting up drinks in his Forum bar. Pious Robert Martel had brought in the farmers who belonged to his "Movement...
...three men had set in train the circumstances they now uncertainly faced. It was Lagaillarde who persuaded the other two to "direct action" to protest De Gaulle's removal of Paratrooper General Jacques Massu (TIME, Feb. 1). Once, as they sat in the cafe plotting, he turned on Ortiz, pulled his pistol, and barked at the older man: "I should drop you right now, with this!" After the bloody Jan. 24 fight with the gendarmes (19 dead, 146 wounded), it was Lagaillarde who ordered up the barricades and dug the first shovelful of dirt...
...officer at the head of the formation of haggard reservists said the men behind the barricades were now mainly members of the civilian-military organizations led by Lagaillarde and Joseph Ortiz, a cafe owner...