Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidekicks anywhere outside an Argentine prison. There was Perón's Chamber of Deputies President Hóctor Cámpora; José Gregorio Espejo, once head of the General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman...
...week, 205 members of a constituent assembly gathered to write a constitution to replace the dictatorial charter used by deposed Strongman Juan Perón. In a Buenos Aires dance hall, Peronista and anti-Peronista labor leaders fought for control of the all-embracing General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.). President Pedro Aramburu, the uncompromising general who heads the provisional regime, spurred them on with urgent warnings. "While the world marches rapidly ahead," he said, in one of a series of speeches, "we continue mentally and materially living 30 years behind the times...
...color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what he kills ("The bulls are my best friends"), just as Brett always momentarily loves the men she ruins...
...four of Cozzens' books have carried at least one mark of popular recognition-selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club: S. S. San Pedro (1931), The Last Adam (1933), The Just and the Unjust (1942), and now By Love Possessed. Still another novel, Guard of Honor, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1948. Nevertheless, the hardcover sales of all Cozzens' books combined (140,000) lag well behind that current dreary splash in a small-town sex sump, Peyton Place (250,000 copies). The interior decorators of U.S. letters-the little-magazine critics whose favorite furniture is the pigeonhole...
...Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle. Beyond that, scientists were as baffled as laymen by the mysteries of curare...