Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spends the rest of every hour exercising his disabled back), and the union leader insisted on talking only about la causa, never about himself. Those around Chavez were equally reluctant to discuss him as a man. Says Anson: "For most of them, Chavez is a symbol rather than a person...
Encouraged by the favorable reactions to his European trip last winter, Richard Nixon has been eager to embark on another venture in person-to-person diplomacy. Last week he flew to Canada to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the only real question was where he would go next. The answer: Nearly everywhere. Late this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first...
...Mestizo: person of mixed Spanish and Indian blood, as are most Mexican Americans. Gueros have relatively light skins; trigueños are somewhat darker...
Frazier agreed: "All I know is, he's a person and I treat 'em all the same way." That is, with the same brutal indifference that he once applied to sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. "When I was training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer...
...person who never forgot the delightful fantasies was Eluard's daughter Cecile. Three years ago, she revisited the house at Eaubonne and found the murals covered with layers of wallpaper. It took two years for a restorer, using archaeological techniques, to transfer some of the delicate oils to canvas. The resuit is now being shown at Paris' Galerie Andre-Frangois Petit. Amazingly, the colors are as bright as the day Ernst painted them, and each of the 14 canvases carries something of that breathless, rarefied atmosphere of in sight and abandon in which they were created. More important...