Word: pedro
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...plaintiffs, four British sherry producers, are demanding that they not be enjoined from using the word "sherry" on their labels The defendants, Pedro Domecq, Gonzalez Byass (Tio Pepe) and two other Spanish sherrymakers, argue that true sherry comes only from the vineyards around the Spanish town of Jerez. Since "sherry" is merely a corruption of "Jerez," they say, it ought to be reserved for the Jerez product, just as British courts have reserved the name "champagne" for France's Champagne district...
Citrus fruit, the arrival of the railroad and Southern California's spreading reputation as a sun-drenched health haven led to a land boom in the 1880s. The landlocked city enhanced its metropolitan status by reaching out 20 miles to annex San Pedro as an outlet to the Pacific. By 1900, the population exceeded 100,000, and when Los Angeles quenched its thirst with an aqueduct to the far-off Owens River Valley in 1913, its destiny was sealed. Los Angeles and its environs claimed well over 2,000,000 inhabitants by 1930. Having emerged after World...
...Colombia, terrorists ambushed an army patrol 125 miles southwest of Bogota, killed 15 troopers and wounded 15 others before escaping without a single loss. It was the first appearance in more than a year of the last of Colombia's big-time bandits, Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, alias Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot), who in recent years has styled himself a Castroite guerrilla. Under former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's anti-insurgency troopers won control of four of the country's five Communist redoubts in the high Andes. Colombia's new President, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, called...
...Roebuck will soon open its third store in Lima, and has plans for two more next year. Until March 1965, Peru imported all its autos; it now has five assembly plants, will get eight more from French, German, Swedish and Japanese automakers next year. Says General Motors Plant Manager Pedro Pessoa, whose popular Chevelles sell for $4,440: "We can't build them fast enough...
...price. Yet the Copley newspaper chain paid $2,650,000 for it last May, and Copley is not known for spending its money foolishly. The chain's 15 other papers are all well-established dailies in such cities as Joliet, Springfield and Elgin, ILL., and San Diego, San Pedro and Burbank, Calif. They all turn a profit, and though nominally independent, all generally stick to the conservative Republican philosophy of their owner, Jim Copley...