Word: otero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorities hardly agree with the popular notion that the Tupamaros are mere idealists heroically dedicated to improving the lot of the common man. "This is the beginning of an urban guerrilla movement," says Police Intelligence Chief Alejandro Otero. "The Tupamaros are really dangerous-they have capable people and remarkable organization." Tupamaro membership seems to be growing: there are now an estimated 1,000 members, grouped in clandestine five-to seven-man cells. The outfit is run by a core of perhaps 50 to 100 activists, some of whom are believed to have been trained in Cuba. Their intelligence is excellent...
Name Sleeper. The most notorious demimondaine of the era was a statuesque Spanish gypsy who is reputed to have amassed $15 million during an active career that spanned five decades. Her name was Augustina Otero, and her origins were humble to the point of bleakness. She was born in 1868, the second of seven bastards of a village prostitute. At the age of eleven, she was raped and rendered infertile for life. At twelve, she left home and wandered through Spain and Southern France, sharing bed for board before becoming a cabaret dancer. It was not long before she discovered...
Over the next quarter century, La Belle Otero's distinguished clientele came to include the crowned heads of England, Spain. Belgium, Russia, Germany, Persia, Monaco and Montenegro, as well as assorted dukes and princes, not to mention such uncommon commoners as Italy's D'Annunzio, an American Vanderbilt, and French Premier Aristide Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even...
Curious Twins. In her dealings with men, Otero lost her professional cool but twice. Once she sought out Eugene Sandow, "the Strongest Man in the World." But he rebuffed her advances, preferring the male company of his Danish pianist roommate instead. The other object of her attentions was one half of an act named the Marco Twins -James, 6 ft. 3 in. and Dietrich, 3 ft. 6 in. It was the lower half of the team that attracted her ("Frankly, I was curious"), and one night she succeeded in satisfying her inquisitiveness. But later she discovered that the twins were...
...Otero's biographer, Arthur H. Lewis (The Day They Shook the Plum Tree), is a former newspaperman in the old copydesk tradition, relying heavily on choice clips and spicy quotes. He also does his duty by psychology and suggests that the fatherless Otero's entire life may not have been so much a triumphant romp as a protest against the man who raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino...