Word: pedro
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...soon afterward for San Francisco to cover the 1920 Democratic National Convention, at space rates, for the local News Tribune. As it happened, the Democrats merited precious little space for nominating James M. Cox. "I got about $3," recalls Ainsworth. But he went on working for papers from San Pedro to Atlanta before landing a job with the Los Angeles Times...
...PEDRO CALDEROX, 29. of Buenos Aires, made his debut with the Argentine National Symphony in 1957. His technique is brisk and athletic, and he embellishes a graceful, conservative beat with little dance steps. While conducting the first movement of Bartok's Concerto jor Orchestra, he became so involved in the rhythmic current that his left hand began to drift meaninglessly-but the good-natured Symphony of the Air helped him sound ingenious...
...shapes and sizes, from a twelve-cylinder, 420-h.p. experimental car to a 340-h.p. gran turismo, a first cousin of the one that Desi Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain's John Surtees had a 340-h.p. roadster and mustachioed Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix champion, was to drive a prototype Ferrari that boasted a separate carburetor for each of its twelve cylinders. "Our only enemies," boasted Luigi Chinetti...
...Godoy, 59, head of the four-man military junta that took over Peru after inconclusive elections last year, sat stiffly in the ornate Salón Blanco of Lima's presidential palace listening to the complaints of two fellow junta members, Air Force Major General Pedro Vargas Prada and Vice Admiral Francisco Torres Matos. The midnight callers gave him an ultimatum: resign or be driven out. Replied Pérez Godoy: "I refuse to leave. It is too late now to continue this conversation. I am going to retire...
...near Havana, a cinder-block wall went up to screen the docks; local Cubans nicknamed the area "Little Berlin." But there was no way of concealing the Red army trucks and armored cars lined up five-deep for a quarter of a mile along Havana's waterfront San Pedro Street. Exiles with contacts in Cuba reported convoys of military vehicles, radar vans, mobile generators, field kitchens, and flatbed trucks bearing cylindrical objects under tarpaulins rumbling inland from the quays...