Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller's Beautiful Wife (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA), based on The Three-Cornered Hat, the well-known Spanish comedy of confusion by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, offers somewhat more confusion and rather less comedy than the novel. But the comedy is always pleasant, and the confusion, as Director Mario Camerini merrily confounds it in this Italian translation, has something of the suspense and desperate fascination of a tangle in milady's drawstrings...
Infernal Triangle. In Mexicali, Mexico, police jailed Pedro Maldona de Valdez after he stole a pair of trousers from a dry cleaners and gave them to a friend -who took them immediately to the cleaners to be pressed...
...receiver of the bankrupt dictatorship is Provisional President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 54, a two-star general. His lot has been an economic migraine headache compounded by unending plots against him and dismaying political anxieties. Because he is unexcitable and firm, he has not only survived for 18 months but has also turned his nation around and faced it toward political and economic revival. Even more notably, he has made an articulate, reiterated, unequivocal promise to liquidate his own regime as well as Peron's, and give the government back to elected civilians...
Plot's Roots. The stern lines of disapproval that are the normal set of Pedro Aramburu's face deepened as he watched his country's political and economic slide. In 1950, as a colonel, Aramburu joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing...
...onetime barber and carpenter, Pedro Infante broke into the movies 15 years ago and quickly rose to fame as a last man with a gun or a girl, and a mellow man with a lyric. Dressed in his familia charro jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified...