Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Campo Mayo. One day last year Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) were alarmed by the regular thud of military boots on the Avenida General Paz, the rumble of moving caissons. From the Campo Mayo, Army headquarters, dashed truckloads of soldiers with machine guns. They converged on Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. In less than half a day the corrupt, unpopular, three-year administration of President Ramon S. Castillo was ended...
Bolivia's missing tin baron suddenly reappeared in La Paz last week. Massive, enormously wealthy Mauricio Hochschild, who vanished on his way to the Chilean Embassy 17 days before, finally turned up there. With him was his general manager, who had also disappeared...
...reporter in La Paz tried to telephone the news to his office in Buenos Aires. Bolivian military censors...
...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
...most active member of Bolivia's trinity of tin barons. The others: elderly Indian Simón Patiño (called one of the richest men in the world), who has not visited Bolivia since 1923; and elegant, Oxford-bred Carlos Victor Aramayo, who looks in remote La Paz like Anthony Eden in exile...