Word: quesada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
Next day, they started to pour down. Santiago's newspapers carried a long and bitter communiqué from the Apristas. Ambassador Miró Quesada renewed his protest to the Chilean Foreign Ministry, then replied to the Aprista communique with a 16-point message of his own, declaring no less than six times that the Apristas were obviously Reds, since their party symbol (like that of Communism) is a five-pointed star...
...refurbishing the century-old Capitolio Nacional, where the sessions will be held. Behind locked doors, Artist Martinez Delgado painted until 2 a.m. on a fresco depicting Bolivar's inauguration in 1821. The block-long Ministry of Government building on the Avenida Jiménez de Quesada was only half-scoured, the cleaned marble and sandstone contrasting sharply with the dingy, unscrubbed sections. Municipal inspectors were touring Bogotá to make sure that citizens were painting and scrubbing their houses, as ordered by the City Council on pain of fines up to 50 pesos ($35). Streets have been repaved, potholes...
Hardly a man in Lima heard the news without thinking at once of another assassination. Eleven years earlier Antonio Miro Quesada, editor of the powerful, conservative Comercio, had been shot and killed in the Plaza San Martin. That time an Aprista had done...
...Married. Major General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 42, Army Air Forces hero who (in 1929) served as relief pilot of the plane Question Mark on its spectacular endurance flight (nearly seven days aloft), was the wartime commanding general of the Ninth Fighter Command in England, flew 86 combat missions, now heads the Tactical Air Command; and Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam, . 29, granddaughter of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer and daughter of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bar Harbor...