Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the news of Tito's visit was released, there were predictable protests. In California, a scheduled stopover on Tito's ten-day itinerary, demonstrators hanged him in effigy from trees, fences and buildings, even drowned him in effigy at a ferry terminal in San Pedro. In the Senate, Democrats Frank Lausche of Ohio and Tom Dodd of Connecticut blasted the visit, and Barry Goldwater, referring to the White House boycott of South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu (see following story), complained: "We are dining with our enemy and slapping our friends in the face...
...preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives in the barest of shacks in the worst of Santiago's slums, where 180,000 people live, and who by sharing the lot of the poor has made .the church's presence felt in a community that is ordinarily...
Playing a slow, steady game, Mark Rose from the Rochester University varsity upset Pedro Rosello, ninth ranked player in the U.S. and first seeded in the Summer School tournament, in Friday's semi-final match, 8-6, 6-3. In the final he will face the winner of today's semi-final match between Richard Abramson and Marsh McCall. The final will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow on the varsity courts...
Mark Rose and Pedro Rossello will meet next week in the men's singles semi-finals of the Summer School Tennis Tournament. Rose is on the varsity tennis team at the University of Rochester, while Rossello, a student at Notre Dame, is a nationally ranked amateur from Puerto Rico...
...elections, the military junta that had been running the country for more than a year stepped peacefully aside for the inauguration of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a vigorous and ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries like copper mining are expanding, and new industries like fish-meal fertilizer are running...