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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never very popular among Cuzqueños. His father divided the overextended empire between his sons, Atahuallpa and Huascar. Atahuallpa defeated Huascar, took Cuzco, and eliminated the old Cuzco nobility. The Cuzqueños have never quite forgiven...
...perusing the guest list at Madrid's Castellana Hilton hotel, genealogically minded Madrileños could contemplate in wonderment what complex twigs sprout from Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton...
From coastal towns and mountain hamlets, 150,000 Greek Cypriots-more than one-fourth of the entire population of the island-walked, pedaled and bounced in decrepit buses into the capital of Nicosia (pop. 80,000). They clogged the narrow streets, clotted the tortuous alleys. "Makarios, Ma-ka-ri-os," they chanted as the black-robed archbishop rode in triumph beneath arches of myrtle and laurel in a cream-colored Mark VII Jaguar. This, declared Makarios, is "the resurrection of our country...
...censored. Conspicuously absent from Caracas' newsstands : El Heraldo, a monopoly evening paper that was manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after the revolution, Caraqueños last week got a new evening paper called El Mundo. Its fighting slogan : "I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery...
...spring, out of a ten-mile tangle of celluloid salvaged 2,400 evocative feet, garnished it with an equally evocative script by Emmet John Hughes, author of Report from Spain (and now chief of TIME-LIFE'S foreign correspondents). There were some coruscant scenes: crying, cursing Madrileños "running faster, faster along the very edge of the abyss," truncheon-wielding cops beating them back; women and children being evacuated under heavy air bombardment, their life's possessions tied in burlap on their backs, or black coffins slung across their shoulders. There were sad, wizened faces in endless...